Meaning of shorling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
2. A sheep of the first year's shearing.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
3. A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
4. A priest.
   UK, broadly, derogatory, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“a Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth, as relates to the buying or shipping of Wools or Wool-fells, Morling or Shorling, by Aliens or Strangers within the Realm”

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