gleed

American  

[gleed] / glid /

noun

Archaic.

1. a glowing coal.

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gleed British  

/ ɡliːd /

noun

1. archaic a burning ember or hot coal

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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

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

‘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 Sidgwick, Frank

Now of me wotteth God 2650 That to me is much liefer that that, my lyke-body, With my giver of gold the gleed should engrip.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

"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

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 Masefield, John