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Meaning of SHORLING

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 
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