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A hut or small cottage in the hills or mountains that is used as a shelter by shepherds. (Britain)

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Usage examples (38)
  • 'Our shieling was a good mile lower down the stream than the artist's summer hut.
  • "gledes of light," and with "shieling" for a pastoral summer station in the hills.
  • A shieling in cop-pingers and porrish soup all days.
  • Switzer pine amid the luxuriant scenes of tropical life, when their thoughts revert to the smoky shieling or to the rock-encompassed
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