ˈskeeling Orkney dial.
Also 6 skilling.
[prob. of Scandinavian origin.]
skeeling-goose, the sheldrake.
| 1578 [see rout n.7]. 1684 Sir R. Sibbald Scotia iii. 21 Skeeling-goose, de quo fama est, in ejus Ventriculo Grana Piperis reperiri, de quo tamen non constat. 1806 Neill Tour Ork. & Shetl. 195 Skeel-goose, Shieldrake, Anas Tadorna. In Orkney it is sometimes also called skeeling-goose or skeel-duck. 1866 T. Edmondston Gloss. Shetl. & Orkney 104. |