yird
Americannoun
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This also appears in connection with fracture other than that from O. E. ā: cp. yirth, yird, for "earth."
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
"Weel, that beats the world!" quoth the smith; "I wad hae thought the mare wad hae luppen ower yird and stane, or fa'en down dead wi' fright."
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
There was mickle love atween us twa— Oh, twa could ne'er be fonder; And the thing on yird was never made, That could hae gart us sunder.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
Weel, maybe he had the root o' the maitter in him, although it made unco little show aboon the yird.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
I wish our fonds were well oot of them, and in yird and stane, which is a constansie.
From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by John Galt
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