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Definition of 'yaud'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(Scotland|Northern England) A workhorse; an old or worn-out mare.
* 1814', '', ' 1821 , Volume 2, page 98 ,
- "Nay by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come for it with one of the yauds ."
* , Seeking the Houdy'', 2006 , ''The Collected Works of James Hogg: Contributions to Annuals and Gift-books , page 60 ,
- "Get on, my fine yaud , get on! There is nothing uncanny there."
- Robin coaxed thus, as well to keep up his own spirits, as to encourage his mare; for the truth is, that his hair began to stand on end with affright.
* 1846 , Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurrences , page 106 ,
- he threw it overboard, subjecting it to a spell, that it never should be removed save by the co-operation of "Two twin yauds'' , two twin oxen, two twin lads, and a chain forged by a ''smith of kind ."
Synonyms
* (old horse) jade
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