beild

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from the same root as build.

Noun

beild (plural beilds)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialect) A place of shelter; protection; refuge.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for beild”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

beild

  1. Alternative form of belde
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