shieling

plural shielings · alternative shealing · alternative sheeling · alternative shielin · alternative sheilin · alternative sheiling · alternative sheelin

1. An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.

   The cattle at Mosfell were kept in a shieling, and Thordis stayed there while the Thing took place.

   1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 182

2. A shepherd's hut or shack.

   Cabins and shielings had been torn down and burned.

   2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 39

   2 more examples

   And what are twenty beds, when all the drovers, And all the shieling herdsmen from Bengorach, Must have a lair provided for the night.

   1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, act 1

   Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram […].

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 316