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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‘And last they’ll turn me in your arms Into the burning gleed; Then throw me into well water, O throw me in wi’ speed.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
A minuit more in this gleed, an’ some o’ us may niver leave it alive.”
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
He saw the farms where the dogs were barking, Cold Crendon Court and Copsecote Larking; The fault with the spring as bright as gleed, Green-slash-laced with water weed.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
But the heat is none the less for that; rather the heat lasts longer below the gleed than above it.
From Cliges; a romance by Laetitia Jane Gardiner
Myne eyes with teares against the fire stryuing, With scorching gleed my hart to cynders turneth; But with those drops the coles againe reuyuing, Still more and more vnto my torment burneth.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
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