yeld
Americanadjective
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barren; sterile.
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(of a cow) not giving milk, from being in calf or from age.
adjective
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(of an animal) barren or too young to bear young
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(of a cow) not yielding milk
Etymology
Origin of yeld
before 1100; Middle English; Old English gelde barren; cognate with German Gelt; akin to geld 1
Example Sentences
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Your thrift's as gude as the profit o' a yeld hen.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
A theff, yeld the asttyt, 640 f. 88a.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
With old Joe Baxter she long had striven,— Joe set his sponge, but it never would leaven; And as for Gib Jenkinson's cow that gaed yeld, It was very well known that Crummie was spelled.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
The erl of Rychemond certeynly, That day was taken in the feld; The erl of Vendue was right sory; And Sir Bursegaunt he gan hym yeld.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
Ther may be moe, and these I yeld because I ken noe other waye to help this necessitie, rather then that I can think anye idle symbol tolerable in just orthographie.
From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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