shorling

English

Noun

shorling (plural shorlings)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
   • a. 1480, a statute, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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

2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A sheep of the first year's shearing.
3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
4. (UK, dialect, obsolete, by extension, derogatory) A priest.

References

• “shorling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.