Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A young sheep that has been sheared once.
  • noun The tanned skin of a sheared sheep or lamb, with the short wool still attached.
  • noun A synthetic material that resembles shearling.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sheep of one shear, or that has been once shorn.

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

  • noun A sheep but once sheared.

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

  • noun A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
  • noun A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth

Etymologies

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shear +‎ -ling

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