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Definition of Chiel
1. chield [n -S] - See also: chield
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiel
Literary usage of Chiel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
"LORD INGRAM and chiel Wyet Was baith born in one bower ; Laid baith their hearts
on one Lady, The less was their bonheur. chiel Wyet and Lord Ingram, ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Ye'll find him ay a dainty chiel, A chiel sae clever ; Poem on Pastoral Poetry.
... cries ilka chiel, The Ans. to the Quid-wife. The chiel that's a fool for ..."
3. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1896)
"10 is wanting. 66 LORD INGRAM AND chiel WYET A. a. ' Lord Ingram and chiel Wyet,'
Motherwell's Wa'yates and Auld Ingram,' Jamieson's Popular Minstrelsy, p. ..."
4. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"... chiel. From Scarce Ancient Ballads, p. 17. The same in Buchan, ii. 109, The
Baron turned Ploughman. THERE was a knight, a barone bright, A bauld barone ..."
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