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shala

shala, shela, shelinga [ME shale < ON skále, ME shele < AS *scela], temporary building, hut, hovel, shiel. 1291 non fuerunt ibi nisi predicti tres shales Cart. Tynemouth lxx; 1338 item idem elem[osinarius] adquisivit illam schele ‥ que aliquando fuit Roberti de Brando pro viij li. Ac. Durh. 201; 1356 mineatores apud Aldeneston' quondam fuerunt simul morantes in shelis suis qui dum sic fecerant et officium mineacionis excercebant ‥ habuerunt tales libertates Pat 250 m. 23 (= IMisc 173/17); 1403 dedimus ‥ omnimoda alia dominia, castra, pelas ‥ hameletta, shelingas, terras ‥ in Scocia que ‥ comites de Douglas unquam tenuerunt RScot 163b; 1478 de duabus casis dictis schelis ExchScot 480.

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