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Sheeling
- - A hut or small cottage in an exposed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed.
Shelling
- verb - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"
- fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
- remove the husks from; "husk corn"
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"
- use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
Shieling
- - A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.
Shilling
- verb - a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"
- an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
- the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
Shoaling
- verb - become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
- make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
Shorling
- - 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.
Sideling
- - Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.
Singling
- verb - hit a single; "the batter singled to left field"