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Quotation dates: 1809-1847
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SHIEL, v.2 Reduced form of Eng. shield (ne.Sc. 1970). See D, letter, 2.Rnf. a.1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1900) 176:
I'll tak thee to my shelt'ring bower, An shiel thee frae the beating shower.Kcb. 1814 W. Nicholson Tales 22:
The hawthorn yet stood on the brae That shielt them mony a simmer day.Ayr. 1847 Ballads (Paterson) II. 61:
His parent-tree wi' shielin-bough.
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