▪ I. yauld, yald, a. Sc. and north. dial.
(jɔːld)
Also 8 yawl, 9 yaul.
[Origin unknown.]
Active, sprightly, nimble; strong, vigorous.
| 1786 Har'st Rig viii, A bang O' Highlanders, a fendy rout, Baith yawl and strang. 1787 Burns Let. to W. Nicol 1 June, She's a yauld, poutherie Girran. 1816 Scott Antiq. xliv, There's mony yauld chiels amang thae volunteers. 1873 D. Maclagan Heather iii. in Mod. Scott. Poets Ser. iii. (1881) 177 Though somethin' auld An' no sae yauld. |
▪ II. yauld, yaulew, yaulpe, yaumer, -our
varr. yield, yellow, yawp, yammer.