Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to impose upon someone; thus shooling n.

1745

Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 158: One Day he met with an English Doctor, whom he shuled as a cast-away Seaman.

2. to go begging, to find what one can by chance.

1748		Smollett Roderick Random (1979) 234: When they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging.
1791		H. Lemoine ‘Education’ in Attic Misc. 116: The Session’s sentence wrung her to the soul / Nor could she lounge the gag to shule a win.
1824		‘Sonnets for the Fancy’ (Egan Boxiana III) 622: [as 1791].
1842		S. Lover Handy Andy 278: If you think I came here shooling.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.

3. to skulk around.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Shoole, to go skulking about.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1873		Sl. Dict.

4. to carry something as a ‘front’.

1820

J. Clare Rural Life (3rd edn) 125: Gossipping, who takes delight / To shool her knitting out at night / And back-bite neighbours 'bout the town.