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(Schepe-steling,) Scheip-steilling, vbl. n. [17th c. Eng. sheep-stealing (1648).] The act of stealing sheep. —a1578 Pitsc. II 133/15.
I was … brocht heir captiue, bot not for no scheip steilling nor wrangous geir
