Sharps. The shafts of a cart (A.S.).—N. & S.W.
Shaul. v. To shell nuts. Compare Shalus, husks (Chron. Vilod.).—N.W.
Sheening. Thrashing by machinery (Wild Life, ch. vi).—N.W.
Sheep. See Agric. of Wilts, p. 260; also quotation below.
'In the article of sheep what strange nomenclature! Besides the intelligible names of ram, ewe, and lamb, we have wether hogs, and chilver hogs, and shear hogs, ram tegs, and theaves, and two-tooths, and four-tooths, and six-tooths. So strange is the confusion that the word hog is now applied to any animal of a year old, such as a hog bull, a chilver hog sheep. "Chilver" is a good Anglo-Saxon word, "cylfer" [this should be "cilfer">[ ... a chilver hog sheep simply means, in the dialect of the Vale of Warminster, a female lamb a year old.'—Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xvii. p. 303.
*Sheep-bed (Ship-bed). When a labourer had drunk too much, he would 'take a ship-bed,' i.e. lie down like a sheep to sleep in a grass-field, till he was sober.—N.W., obsolete.
Sheep's-cage. The same as Lamb's-cage.—N.W.
Sheep-sleight. See Sleight (D.). Common in Wilts (Jackson's Aubrey, p. 10).
Sheer. Sharp, cutting. 'Uncommon sheer air s'marnin', yunnit?'—N.W.