sheal (2), sheil

[ Icel.skáli =a hut, a shed.] 1. A hut or small cottage for shepherds, or for fishermen on the shore or on the banks of a river; a sheeling. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia sheal 2. A shed for sheltering sheep on the hills during the night. 3. A summer residence, especially one erected for those who go to the hills for sport, . ( Scotch .) sheal, v. t. [SHEAL (1), 8.] To shell; to take the husk or shell off. "That's a shealed peascod."- Shakesp .: Lear , i. 4. sheal-ing (1), subst . [Eng. sheal , v.; -ing.] The outer shell, pod, or husk of pease, oats, or the like. (Prov.) sheal-ing (2), 8. [SHEELING.] shear, *scher-en, *shere (pa. t. * schar , *shar, sheared, shore, pa. par. *schoren, shorn), v. t. & i. [A. S. sceran , sciran (pa. t. scær , pl. scéron , pa. par. scoren); cogn. with Dut. scheren ; Icel. sker a ; Dan. skære; Ger. scheren; Gr. keiro . Allied to scar, scare, scrap, scrape, share, shred, score, short, .] IMG:content-1323.png:[blocks in formation] B. Intransitive: 1. To use shears. 2. To cut, to penetrate. 3. To turn aside, to deviate, to sheer. shëar, *sheër, s. [SHEAR, V.] 1. An instrument to cut with. Now only used in the plural, shears (q. v.). "Short of the wool, and naked from the sheer." Dryden: Virgil; Georgic 111. 679. 2. A year, as applied to the age of a sheep, from the yearly shearing; as, a sheep of one shear , or of two shears, . 3. A barbed fish-spear with several prongs. shear-bill, 8. [SKIMMER, 8., II. 2.] shear-gra , s . Bot .: Triticum repens . shear-hog, sharrag, sherrug, subst. A ram or wether after the first shearing. ( Prov.) shear-hook, s. Naut.: An instrument with prongs and hooks, placed at the extremities of the yards of fire-ships to entangle the enemy's rigging. shear-hulk, 8. [SHEER-HULK.) shear-plan, s. [SHEER-PLAN.]