shiel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shepherd's hut or shieling.
  2. A cottage.
    — The craik amang the claver hay, The pairtrick whirrin o'er the ley, The swallow jinkin round my shiel, Amuse me at my spinnin wheel.
动词 v.
  1. To use a place as a shieling. intransitive
    — Patrick Robertson, who shieled on the Atholl side of Drumochter, confirmed this practice: his cattle 'continued there till about midsummer, when they were brought down to his farm, having continued there about three weeks, and were then sent back to the shealing.

词形变化

shiels plural shiels present,singular,third-person shieling participle,present shieled participle,past shieled past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English schele. Akin to Old Frisian skiāle (“stable”) and Old Norse skjōl (“shelter”). See also sheal.
词源 2
From Middle English schele. Akin to Old Frisian skiāle (“stable”) and Old Norse skjōl (“shelter”). See also sheal.
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