bield

American  

[beeld] / bild /

noun

Scot.

1. a shelter; refuge.

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bield British  

/ biːld /

noun

1. a shelter; house

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verb

1. to shelter or take shelter

Etymology

Origin of bield

1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ) beld ( e ), beild, apparently to be identified with Middle English beild courage, power, aid, Old English bieldo boldness; akin to Gothic balthei confidence. See bold

Example Sentences

For since that wife had gate and gear, And hearth and garth and bield, She willed her sons to the white harvest, And that is a bitter yield.

From The Seven Seas by Kipling, Rudyard

O, where to find a bield—O sirs, where to find a bield from the wind of the Lord’s anger?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Ye lie on your wame a bittie in the bield of this wood, and ye tell me that ye've cuist off these Frasers and Macgregors.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Ye lie on your wame a bittie in the bield of this wood, and ye tell me that ye’ve cuist off these Frasers and Macgregors.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

O let me get into the bield of a house—I can die there easier.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis