glede

British  

/ ɡliːd, ɡlɛd /

noun

1. a former Brit name for the red kite See kite 1

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Etymology

Origin of glede

Old English glida; related to Old Norse gletha, Middle Low German glede

Example Sentences

It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that l doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

My eyes with tears against the fire striving, Whose scorching glede my heart to cinders turneth: But with those drops, the flame again reviving Still more and more it to my torment burneth.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Light brown body, red hackle, gold twist, two fibres of red Ibis for tail, and glede wings.

From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by Blacker, William

The doughty Douglas on a steed he rode all his men beforn, His armour glittered as did a glede, a bolder barn was never born.

From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry

His baþ scal bon wallinde. his bað scal bon berninde glede.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph