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sherlinga

sherlinga, ~us [ME sherling], shorling- [ME shorling], sheep that has been once or recently shorn, (also) skin of such a sheep (in some quot. perh. attrib.). 1303 binda similiter de pellibus pellectis, sc. scherling', j d. (Berwick-on-Tweed) EEC 166; 1306 idem respondet ‥ de xliiij pellibus nudis sive sorling' MinAc 856/15 m. 3d.; 1311 idem respondet de ‥ xx pellibus rottorum et xl pellibus sorling' venditis Ib. 856/17 m. 1; 1379 in xxx pell' de scherlings empt' de celer' pro pistrina, v s. Ac. Durh. 587; 1435 de custuma ‥ pellium qui dicuntur schorlingis ExchScot 604; 1532 pelles vocati sharlyngs Househ. Bk. Durh. 109; 1533 oves expenduntur in coquina ‥ vocate sharlyngs Ib. 207.

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