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Yold
Webster 1828 Edition
Yold
YOLD
, for yielded. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
yold
yold
English
Alternative forms
Verb
yold
- (obsolete) simple past tense of yield
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
- to yield him loue she doth deny, / Once to me yold, not to be yold againe [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
Etymology 2
From Middle English yold (“yielded”), from Old English ġeald (“yielded”), 1st and 3rd person preterite of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).
Verb
yold
- (obsolete) preterite of yield.