fauld

[fawld]

noun

Armor.

1. a piece below the breastplate, composed of lames and corresponding to the culet in back.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fauld¹

Variant of fold ¹

Example Sentences

He is asleep, and probably dreaming of the sheep that he cannot get to enter the “fauld,” for he is emitting little sharp cheeping barks, as dogs often do when they dream.

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Some of them said she was bigger and bonnier, but she was blithe and friendly and “a’e fauld” still—and London hadna spoiled her as it might very easily have done.

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Mrs. Macfarlane attended me to my room; she said she hoped I should be able to sleep upon blankets, and said they were ‘fresh from the fauld.’

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It was the hour o’ gloaming gray, When herds come in frae fauld and pen; A herd he saw a huntsman lie, Says he, ‘Can this be Laird Troughen’?’

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In various parts of the country there were "the goodmane's land and the guidman's fauld," to cultivate which it was supposed would be followed by dire calamities.

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