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Definition of Sheals
1. sheal [n] - See also: sheal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheals
Literary usage of Sheals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Irish Jurist (1859)
"Rudden, 4 Ir. Jur. NS 28, QB ... ... ... ... ... 11 sheals ... sheals, 4 Ir. Jur.
N S. 178, QB ... 41 Somerville and Others v. sheals, 8 Ir. CLR App. IXT. ..."
2. The Topographer ...: Containing a Variety of Original Articles, Illustrative (1789)
"On the other fide the river is South sheals, a fimilar place of traffic, tho*
much inferior ; and beyond this, ..."
3. The Golden Days of the Early English Church from the Arrival of Theodore to by Henry Hoyle Howorth (1917)
"Stevenson speaks of these temporary habitations being still to be seen among the
wilder Northumbrian hills, and as being called " sheals " or ..."
4. Report on Surveys and Preliminary Operations on the Canadian Pacific Railway by Sandford Fleming, Canada Dept. of Public Works (1877)
"... running eastward mid-channel until Race Bocks are passed, where it sheals to
60 or 70 ... This deep water sheals rapidly to twenty ..."
5. The Church Historians of England by Joseph Stevenson (1853)
"... possessed many holy men, by whose learning 1 Some of those temporary habitations
yet to be seen among the wilder Northumbrian hills called "sheals," or ..."
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