glede
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of glede
Old English glida; related to Old Norse gletha, Middle Low German glede
Example Sentences
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It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that l doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
My eyes with tears against the fire striving, Whose scorching glede my heart to cinders turneth: But with those drops, the flame again reviving Still more and more it to my torment burneth.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
A dark brown fly, brown red hackle and body, ribbed with gold twist, and glede wings, varied with brown spotted turkey tail feather or mallard, one of each.
From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by William Blacker
And lepte out of the arsoun, As sperk thogh out of glede.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Glead is the A.-S. glida or kite, though, in our version of Deut. xiv. 13., both glede and kite are mentioned.
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