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Webster 1913 Edition


Yold

Yold

,
obs.
p.
p.
of
Yield
.
Yielded.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Yold

YOLD

, for yielded. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


yold

yold

English

Alternative forms

Verb

yold

  1. (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 [...].

Etymology 2

From Middle English yold (yielded), from Old English ġeald (yielded), 1st and 3rd person preterite of ġieldan (to yield, pay).

Verb

yold

  1. (obsolete) preterite of yield.