gled

gled (plural gleds)

1. Alternative form of glede.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 85:

     I say that the eyass should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher—’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon.

   • 1866, [George Alfred Lawrence], “Evasit”, in Sans Merci; or, Kestrels and Falcons, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 126:

     In this wise, the glossy bright-eyed kestrel, whom tiercels’ training could not reclaim, shook off silver bells, and velvet hood, and broidered jesses; and fled away—to consort, henceforward for evermore, with gleds, and hawks, and such birds of prey as make their nests deep in Bohemian forests, or in the desolate places of the Wilderness that girdles the frontier of the reputable world.

   • 1887 November 19, Leslie Keith, “Uncle Bob’s Niece”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume XLI, number 990, London: […], page 434, column 2:

     “She’s sharp,” he said admiringly, nodding towards the screen, “she’s as sharp as a gled.”

• geld

gled

1. simple past of gli
2. simple past of glide

• glei

From Proto-Germanic *glōdiz (“incandescence, glowing ember, burning ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gleed (“burning coal, ember”), Saterland Frisian Gloud (“blaze, fire”), Dutch gloed (“glow, blaze”), German Glut (“ember”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡleːd/

glēd f

1. burning or live coal, gleed, ember, fire, flame, spark
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 30‎^[1]:

     Iċ eom līġbysiġ, lāce mid winde, bewunden mid wuldre, wedre ġesomnad, fūs forðweġes, fȳre ġemelted, bearu blōwende, byrnende glēd.

     I am busy with fire, sway with wind, wrapped with worship, gathered in good weather, ready to go forward, melted by fire, a blooming grove, a burning ember.

• Middle English: glede, gleede
  • English: glede, glead, gleed
  • Scots: gleed, gleid

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gléd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Early Scots gled, gledd, from Old Norse gleða. Cognate with Old English glida, English glede.

gled (plural gleds)

1. The red kite (Milvus milvus)
2. A hawk, harrier, or other bird of prey
3. A greedy person
4. A predator or plunderer

From Early Scots glaid, glad, from Old English glæd (“bright; clear”) and Old Norse glaðr (“smooth; happy”).

gled (comparative mair gled, superlative maist gled)

1. glad
2. Of the sky: clear, cloudless
3. smooth, easy in motion, without much friction

• gledly
• gledness
• gledsome

• Rhymes: -eːd

gled

1. past indicative of glida