shieling

His shieling had become a station, his porch a platform.

With a shieling meaning a shepherds hut or a mountain pasture used in the summer.

One such place is a shieling in Lochs parish, possibly suggesting a site where his cattle grazed.

The name means Bay of the White Shieling in Gaelic.

Ranald went up with her to the shieling, carrying a pot with charcoal burning in it.

Eilean Beag has a light beacon and the remains of an old shieling.

The Shieling (2009)

Riding out with a party of ten, including their mother, they find Bolli and Guðrún in a shieling.

At the south end of the rampart there are the remains of a shelter, possibly a shieling, built using stones from the rampart.

The well-known folksong Mairi's Wedding contains the phrase "past the shieling, through the town" which helps protect this word from obscurity.

On the slopes of Kilham Hill are the remains of a shieling, which provided shelter for shepherds watching over the sheep as they grazed.

There is often a substantial tract of unimproved upland common grazing - known as a "shieling" or "àirigh" which is held in common.

School friends who spent their summer holidays at the shieling have assured me that the cows were as alert as they to the seasons and the signs of preparation.

He has published three collections of short stories, Back at the Spike, the highly acclaimed Under the Dam (2005) and The Shieling (2009).

To ram the point home, there's even a Scottish shepherd's cottage, Lone Shieling, off the highway at Grande Anse River.

SHIELING: Ran a marvellous race under a sizeable burden behind Kiya at Ascot.

So of course Janet's inherited Shieling does turn out to be the cottage where Tom is already living, where his mother brought him, near the end of their gypsy wanderings.

Between Upper Achairn and Lower Achairn the burn receives water from Allt Beag-airighe (Burn of the Small Shieling).

There is a small Shieling in the Glen, known as either Tigh nan Cailleach or Tigh nam Bodach, which houses a series of apparently carved stones.

The name, first recorded in 1283 as Mouressate, is from the Old Norse Maures sætr, meaning 'the shieling of a man named Maurr' (a nickname meaning 'ant').

At around the same time, the Farquharsons of Finzean enclosed another area of land in the Forest at Auchabrack, which had previously been the site of a shieling for one of their tenants.

A shieling (Gaelic àirigh), also spelt sheiling, sheeling, and shealing, is a hut, or collection of huts, once common in a wild or lonely place in the hills and mountains of Scotland and northern England.

'Berrier' means 'hill shieling' - from Old English (OE) 'berg', 'hill', and Old Norse (ON)'erg' 'shieling', 'hill pasture'.

In her waking life, third-person Janet learns that her mother, whom she believes to have been killed in an accident very early in her own childhood, has only recently died, leaving her a seaside property in the north of England, a house with a name: "The Shieling."

The goodwife of the clachan had hidden Cunningham's sword, and while he rummaged the house in quest of his own or some other, Rob Roy went to the Shieling Hill, the appointed place of combat, and paraded there with great majesty, waiting for his antagonist.