Definition of Sheilings

1. sheiling [n] - See also: sheiling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheilings

sheik
sheika
sheikdom
sheikdoms
sheikh
sheikha
sheikhas
sheikhdom
sheikhdoms
sheikhs
sheiks
sheila
sheilas
sheild
sheiling
sheilings (current term)
sheisty
sheitan
sheitans
sheitel
sheitels
shekalim
shekel
shekelim
shekels
shekere
shekeres
shekhinah
shekinah
shekinahs

Literary usage of Sheilings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1877)
"I did not, however, intend to remove them from their possessions in Bernera, but merely from their sheilings or summer grazings on the mainland—that is in ..."

2. The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders (1900)
"Mr. Cameron mentions with minuteness the names of the other tenants on Loch Arkaig side downwards, with their respective sheilings, and of the successive ..."

3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1885)
"On the hills are sheilings or huts, made of turf or stone, ... When the people arrive at their destination and have put their sheilings in order, ..."

4. Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness, from the Tenth Century by James Tait Calder (1861)
"These valuable products of the dairy were usually manufactured in the summer season, at what was called the sheilings, that is, ..."

5. Glasgow, Past and Present: Illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports, and by James Pagan, Aliquis, Robert Reid, J. B., Guild Court (Glasgow, Strathclyde) (1856)
"On my road, l found some sheilings possessed by M'Keas, ... i and got to their houses and sheilings about daybreak, and surrounded and narrowly i ..."

6. Glasgow, Past and Present: Illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports, and by James Pagan, Guild Court (Glasgow, Strathclyde), Aliquis, Robert Reid, J. B. (1856)
"Accordingly, the party marched at eleven o'clock at iii^rht, and got to their houses and sheilings about daybreak, and surrounded and narrowly searched ..."

7. Highland Tay: From Tyndrum to Dunkeld by Hugh Macmillan (1901)
"These sheilings are in the corry of Ben Lawers, following up the old zigzag peat-track ... All tradition of these sheilings has disappeared in the district; ..."

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