Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SHORE'LING, or SHOR'LING
SHORE'LING, or SHOR'LING, n.
In England, the skin of a sheep shorn, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep. Hence in some parts of England, a shorling is a sheep shorn, and a morling is one that dies. – Encyc.
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