Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SHORLING
In England, the skin of a living sheep shorn, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from a dead sheep. Hence in some parts of England, a shorling is a sheep shorn, and a morling is one that dies.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SHORLING
SHORLING Shor "ling, n.
1. The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng. ]
2. A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest. [Obs. ] Halliwell.
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