Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shell, husk, or pod.
  • noun A hut or cottage used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, or others as a temporary shelter while engaged in their several pursuits away from their own dwellings; also, a shelter for sheep on the hills during the night. Also shealing.
  • To put under cover or shelter: as, to sheal sheep.
  • To take the husks or pods off; shell.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod.
  • noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A shell or pod.
  • noun Scot. Same as sheeling.
  • transitive verb Scot. To put under a sheal or shelter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK, dialect, obsolete A shell or pod.
  • noun A shieling
  • verb To shell (remove husks, shells etc)
  • verb To shelter under a shieling

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