Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English abrede. More at abread. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I believe the clay coated board is so that you can incise or abraid through the clay to expose a white surface for fine detail, like scratchboard or sgraffito.”
“Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together.”
“I strove again, then, to escape, pulling against the bonds, trying to abraid them against the back of the blade.”
“When Sir Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together.”
“And when he espied that squire, therewith he abraid and brake himself loose, and took his sword in his hand, and ran to have slain the squire.”
“Then the courage came into his body, and with a great might he abraid upon his feet, and smote the black and yellow knight upon the helm by an overstroke so fierce that the sword sheared away the third part of his head, as it had been a rotten cheese.”
“Question: If KKKristian people are of such a low intellect and are not capable of figuring out how to get out of this mess they believe in, is it right for me to abraid them for something they weren't born with (enough intelligence) to be 'able' to overcome?”
“I think he is going to be OK, "she says, friendly and smiley, her long hair plaited in abraid on one side of her head.”
The Guardian: 'I don't want to live on the dole and sell weed'
“To {} samen it smiten and on a stund. [f. 41v ðe fette ðrist hem to ðo grund. ðe king abraid and woc in ðhogt.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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