Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirseling
Literary usage of Hirseling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"Hirsel, among shepherds, means to arrange or dispose the sheep in separate flocks,
and hirseling, the separating into flocks or herds ; sometimes written ..."
2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"Store-farming has been improved. Summer hirseling is given up, and ewe-milking
done away. The flocks, being left to wander wide and more at will ..."
3. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1809)
"By hirseling, they turn out more uniform in shape, size, and condition, but they
acquire a dullness and inactivity which does not leave them till next ..."
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