Sunday Word: Shieling

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shieling [shee-ling]

noun:
1 pasture land for the grazing of cattle in summer
2 a rough, sometimes temporary, hut or shelter used by people tending cattle on high or remote ground

        
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Examples:

Time at the shieling would allow cattle to feed on rich summer pastures while keeping the animals away from crops growing down in the straths. (The ancient Highland shielings inspiring 21st Century living, The Scotsman, August 2018)

Already the little shieling among the crags began to show traces of the brighter days which were dawning. (Janet Milne Rae, Morag)

I was obliged to lodge in what they call a shieling, where I was used with great hospitality and uncommon politeness by a young farmer and his sister, who were then residing there, attending the milking of the ewes. (Alex Carlyle, Autobiography)

It was a moonlight night, and Montrose, worn out by the fatigues of the day, was laid down to sleep in a miserable shieling. (Sir Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose)

Origin:

Mid 16th century from Scots shiel 'hut' (of unknown origin) + -ing. (Lexico)