shiel

Probably from Scots

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

shiel (plural shiels)

1. A shepherd's hut or shieling.
2. A cottage.
   • 1792, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs:

     The craik amang the claver hay, The pairtrick whirrin o'er the ley, The swallow jinkin round my shiel, Amuse me at my spinnin wheel.

• “shiel” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

shiel (third-person singular simple present shiels, present participle shieling, simple past and past participle shieled)

1. (intransitive, farming) To use a place as a shieling.
   • 2021, David Taylor, Wild Black Region: Badenoch 1750-1800:

     Patrick Robertson, who shieled on the Atholl side of Drumochter, confirmed this practice: his cattle 'continued there till about midsummer, when they were brought down to his farm, having continued there about three weeks, and were then sent back to the shealing.

• Hiles, Hisel, Hisle, Ihles, heils, hiles, leish