Definition of Hauld

1. tenancy (Scots form of HOLD) [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hauld

haughtiness
haughtinesses
haughty
hauing
haul
haul away
haul down
haul somebody over the coals
haul up
haulage
haulages
hauld (current term)
haulds
hauled
haulee
haulees
hauler
haulers
haulier
hauliers
hauling
haulm
haulmier
haulmiest

Literary usage of Hauld

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental To: (1) The by Frederic Seebohm (1902)
"In other words, Guthrum from his point of view took the hauld as the ... It will be remembered that this wergeld of the hauld was equated with 96 cows and ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"[A place of resort or retreat, especially for animals ; as a pool, or under the projecting bank of a stream, where trout and salmon hold, South of S. hauld, ..."

3. English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, Helen Child Sargent (1904)
"or good to make such a fire with ( V) Scott has, hollins grene. hold, holde, hauld, housing, quarters, place of perhaps place of keeping, hold, holde, v., ..."

4. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1910)
"... None of them had any cause to complain of any ill treatment, soon after this the wind freshen'd and we put into La'have - made a fire, hauld the boat up ..."

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