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

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Example Sentences

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bield

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 Robert Louis Stevenson

The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble field, Unseen, alane!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

High shell'ring woods and wa's maun shield, But thou beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibbte-Jleld, Unseen, alane.

From Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

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

From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield, But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane.

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt

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