Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleds
Literary usage of Gleds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"... when young gleds are in them, are kept well filled with mice and moles, which
proves that this bird not only preys on animals of its own tribe, ..."
2. A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX by Prosper Mérimée (1890)
"All but blind men must perceive what these things portend, Gaspard ! buckle on
sword and spur, or in a few days' time the gleds shall glut themselves with ..."
3. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"GLASGOW people, Greenock folk, and Paisley bodies. Liverpool gentlemen and
Manchester men.—E. gleds and corbies will never pair. ..."
4. The Standard-phonographic Dictionary by Andrew Jackson Graham (1890)
"Give up the ghost, Gay^Pee-Gayet Glad as, gleds:(or ">. ... Gled'-Em. Glad it,
gleds-Tee. ..."
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