yead

yead (plural yeads)

1. (dialect) head
   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller‎:

     The Derbyshire people have a saying-- "Darbyshire born, and Darbyshire bred, Strong o' the yarm and weak o' the yead."

   • 1906, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Peter's Mother‎:

     "Beer doan't agree wi' my inzide, an' it gits into my yead, and makes me proper jolly, zo the young volk make game on me.

   • 1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village‎:

     Put 'v' for 'f'; for 's' put 'z'; 'Th' and 't' we change to 'd,'-- So dry an' kip this in thine yead, An' thou wills't talk as plain as we."

• Adey, Daye, E-day, Eady, ayde, daye