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beild - What does it mean?

Definition of 'beild'

English

Alternative forms

* beeld * bield

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A place of shelter; protection; refuge.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book II, lxxxiv:
  • *:This is our beild , the blust'ring winds to shun.
  • *(Robert Burns) (1759-1796)
  • *:The random beild o' clod or stane.
  • (Webster 1913)