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yird
(also 4 ȝerd(e, 4, 8–9 yerd, 5 yherde, 6 ȝird).
Sc. and north. f. earth n., and v. (to bury).
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Petrus) 681 Ihesu,..þat in þis ȝerd com fra hewine. 1433Deeds rel. Orkney vi, Aisiamentis..as weill under yherde as boufe yherde. 1550Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 74 All..pertenens quhatsumeuir..als weill vnder the ȝird as abouf. 1562Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. XI. 214 To David Ellis for ȝerding of Johnne Gordoune..xx s. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) II. 221 They fand yirdit in the yaird of Drum ane trunk full of silver plait. 1785Burns Jolly Beggars Recit. i, When lyart leaves bestrew the yird. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. s.v. Yird-fasts, The cauld yird, the grave. 1825Jamieson s.v., ‘Fairly yirdit’, dead and buried. 1851Cumbld. Gloss., Yerd, a fox-earth. 1882Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. No. 3. 511 The ‘Yirding of a live Cock’ to cure epilepsy. 1894Crockett Raiders xxiv, To afford yirds and secret caves for our Solway smugglers.
b. Comb.: esp. in yirdfast = earthfast (cf. ON. jarðfastr). See also yerd-hunger.
1545Aberd. Reg. XIX. (Jam.) Tuelf pennis Scottis of yerd-siluer. 1785Poems in Buchan Dial. 6 Whare now thy groans in dowy dens The yerd-fast stanes do thirle. 1808Jamieson, Yirdin, thunder [see earth-din]. 1820Blackw. Mag. VI. 568 A penetrating and even suffocating yird-drift. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Yird-fasts, large stones sticking in the yird, or earth, that the plough cannot move. 1825Jamieson, Yird-drift, snow, not in the act of falling, but lifted up from the ground, and driven by the wind, after it has lain for some time. |