Middle English Dictionary Entry
skẹ̄ling(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | skẹ̄ling(e n. |
| Etymology | ?OE (A *scēling), with substitution of ON sk-; cp. ME scāle n.(3), OI skjōl shelter, and MnE dial. skeeling. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. shele n.
1.
An outbuilding; a shed, lean-to.
Associated quotations
- (1377-8) Cart.Oseney in OHS 90135 : I. & A..unum skelynge nouum tegulis coopertum pro coquina & latrina..edificabunt.
- (1389) *New Coll.Accts.in Wood's MS.D.2.fol.272 [OD col.] : In laborem facient. unius skelyng pro sept. 2 s. 6 d.
- (1402-3) Cart.Oseney in OHS 8986 : Iohannes & Iohanna..edificabunt unum skelyng de bono & competenti meremio, ulmeo & quercino, in parte occidentali gardini predicti..quod quidem skelyng erit xxiii pedum longitudinis cum solario & cellario.
- (1448-9) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.51124 : In j skelyng siue coquina facta in tenemento..cum meremio, tegulis, latthis, latthenayll, et zabulo..xj s.