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Shorling

Shorling \Shor"ling\, n.

  1. The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng.]

  2. A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest. [Obs.]
    --Halliwell.

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shorling

n. 1 (context UK dialect obsolete English) The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep. 2 (context UK dialect obsolete English) A sheep of the first year's shearing. 3 (context UK dialect obsolete English) A person who is shorn; a shaveling. 4 (context UK dialect obsolete by extension derogatory English) A priest.