elding

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Cp.Sw. _elding_.

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  1. Firewood; fuel. Prompt. Parv., p. 136. Ye'll be wanting eilding now, or something to pitt ower the winter. Scott, Guy Mannering, xlv.
  2. Rubbish. Halliwell.

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  1. English dial. Also eilding, eldin, elden (and eel-thing), from Middle English *elding, eyldyng, from Icelandic elding (= Danish ilding), fuel, from eldr = Danish ild, fire: see anneal.
 

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