skillion

skillion
/skil"yeuhn/, n. Australian.
a lean-to serving as a room or a shed.
[1860-65; alter. of skilling, orig. dial. (S England), ME skyling; sense suggests kinship with dial. scale hut, shed ( < ON skali; cf. SHIEL), but phonetic development obscure; see -ING3]

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