Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete preterit and past participle of yield.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • past participle Yielded.

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  • verb obsolete Past participle of yield
  • verb obsolete preterite of yield.

Etymologies

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From Middle English yolde, yolden ("yielded"), from Old English ġegolden ("yielded"), past particple of ġieldan ("to yield, pay").

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From Middle English yold ("yielded"), from Old English ġeald ("yielded"), 1st and 3rd person preterite of ġieldan ("to yield, pay").

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Examples

  • Add egg and yold and whisk until mixture is smooth with no sugar lumps remaining, about 30 seconds.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Cake for Breakfast 2009

  • Add egg and yold and whisk until mixture is smooth with no sugar lumps remaining, about 30 seconds.

    The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake for Breakfast 2009

  • I like the healthiness of a poached egg with toast to soak up the yold.

    Eggs Brilynn 2008

  • She was recently married in Hawaii and while there we made plans to send her 17 yold sister for the December holidays to travel with them around SEAsia.

    American Express Travel Card 2004

  • Peter A. Wilson, a senior defense research analyst for the RA.D Corp. yold A. that the significance of the craft is unclear because the program has been around for so long.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • The clerk yold me they just left the groceries and ran and came back for them later.

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • Symposium, there\'s a dialogue between Socrates and some yold named Agathon, clarifying the true nature of the feta-and-spinach omelet.

    Esquire.com Article Feed 2009

  • The clerk yold me they just left the groceries and ran and came back for them later.

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • Batchoy (or bachoy) is a happy cauldron of thin flavors and variegated textures competing for attention: the soft ribbons of rice-and-egg noodles, the invitation to slurp impolitely by the beaten egg white and yold bits, the roughage of crunchy chicharon (pork rind) bits, the livery bits, the delicious pork bits, the aromatic leeks -- all swimmingly circumnavigating a wide steaming pond.

    PANEM ET CIRCENSES 2008

  • ‘sweat’ ‘swat’; ‘yield’ ‘yold’ (both in Spenser); ‘mete’ ‘mat’ (Wiclif);

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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