Shorling

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shorling \Shor"ling\, n.
     1. 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. [Prov.
        Eng.]
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     2. A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a
        priest. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
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