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hirsel
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hirsel
n. (context Scotland Northern English English) The entire stock on a farm or stock under the charge of a shepherd.
Usage examples of "hirsel".
There had been no lamps attached to the bicycles of John Catterick and the herd of the west hirsel, so the travellers must needs move circumspectly.
Black Swire, some eight miles from Portaway, the eastern hirsel on the Knockraw estate.
Prentice, limping out in the early morning to see to the lambing ewes in his hirsel, had occasion to take a short cut through the hazel shaws.
The two hill hirsels had been brought down to the valley the night before, and were penned in great folds beside the stream.