Shor"ling (?), n.

1.

The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.

[Prov. Eng.]

2.

A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.

[Obs.]

Halliwell.

 

© Webster 1913.

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