Sc. [f. KEEL sb.3] trans. To mark with ruddle. Hence Keeling vbl. sb.
1508. Kennedie, Flyting w. Dunbar, 431. Thow has thy clamschellis, and thy burdoun kelde [Bann. MS. keild].
1562. Winȝet, Cert. Tractates, Wks. 1888, I. 33. Be war to moue … seditioun in this nobyll town be ȝoure calking and keling.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., I. 142. Sheep … all … smeared and keeled.
1886. C. Scott, Sheep-Farming, 151. The sale ewe lambs in hill flocks are also keeled on the neck to distinguish them from the wether lambs.
