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noun 
  1. An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.
  • 1997: The cattle at Mosfell were kept in a , and Thordis stayed there while the Thing took place. " "Egil's Saga", tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin 2001, p. 182)
    1. A shepherd's hut or shack.
Etymology: From shiel.


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