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

I tell you, the goddess who glitters With gold on the perch of the falcon, The bride that I trusted, by beauty, From the bield of my hand has been taken.

From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

But my white pow, nae kindly thowe Shall melt the snaws of age; My trunk of eild, but buss or bield, Sinks in Time’s wintry rage.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Or did misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a.'

From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp

The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield, walls But thou, beneath the random bield shelter O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, barren Unseen, alane.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson

I noted well the signs of their great eild,   Their shrunken limbs, their locks of snowy hair, The wobbling walk, the bowing, bending bield,   The wrinkled cheeks, and looks of dule and care.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton

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