gleed
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gleed
before 950; Middle English gleed ( e ), Old English glēd; cognate with German Glut, Old Norse glōth; akin to glow
Example Sentences
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"O gin my hands had been loose, Willy,115 Sae hard as they are boun', I wadd hae turn'd me frae the gleed, And casten out your young son."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
‘O gin my hands had been loose, Willy, Sae hard as they are boun’, 75 I would have turn’d me frae the gleed, And castin out your young son.’
From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Sidgwick, Frank
"Not a gleed of fire, then, except the bit kindling peat, and maybe a spunk in Mysie's cutty-pipe," replied Caleb.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir
Their love grows and increases continually; but the one feels shame before the other; and each conceals and hides this love so that neither flame nor smoke is seen from the gleed beneath the ashes.
From Cliges; a romance by Gardiner, Laetitia Jane
Jest at that minnit, who shed come right into the gleed but Marian herself!
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
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