skilling

From skill (verb).

skilling

1. present participle of skill

From Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skilling.

skilling (plural skillings)

1. (historical) A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century. (A subdivision of the Swedish riksdaler, the Danish and Norwegian rigsdaler and speciedaler).

Compare sheeling.

skilling (plural skillings)

1. A bay of a barn.
   • 1844, James Atkinson, An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales

     The barn may be built with lean-to's or skillings all round […]

2. A small addition to a cottage.

• killings

From Old Norse skillingr.

• IPA^(key): /skelenɡ/, [ˈsɡ̊elˀeŋ]

skilling c (singular definite skillingen, plural indefinite skillinger)

1. skilling (A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century.)

From Old Norse skillingr, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Akin to English shilling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪlːɪŋ/

skilling m (definite singular skillingen, indefinite plural skillingar, definite plural skillingane)

1. shilling (A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century.)
2. a coin (any coin)
   • 1856, Ivar Aasen, Norske Ordsprog:

     Ein Skilling, som er spard, er tvo Gonger tent.

     A shilling that is saved, is twice earned.

• “skilling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse skillingr, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, the same source of English shilling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɧɪlˌɪŋ/

skilling c

1. skilling (coin)