▪ I. † teld, n. Obs.
Forms: 1–5 teld, 1, 4–5 telde, (3 tȝeld), 4 tield, teeld, 4–5 tilde, 5 tild, tyld, -e, telte.
[OE. teld, ᵹeteld = OLG. *teld (MDu. telde, telte, Kilian), MLG. telt, telde, LG. telt; OHG. zelt (mostly gizelt), MHG. zelt (usually gezelt), Ger. zelt; ON. tjald (:—*teld), pl. tjǫld, Norw. tjeld, Sw. tält, dial. tjäll, Da. telt, tent, pavilion, app. a deriv. of teld-an str. vb. to cover (cf. OE. beteldan, oferteldan). The late form telte may have been influenced by continental forms: see also tilt.]
A tent, pavilion, covering; hence, a tabernacle, dwelling.
| a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. ix. [xi.] §2 (Camb. MS.) Mon teld [v.r. ᵹ eteld] þærofer abrædde. c 1000 ælfric Gen. xviii. 9 On þam telde heo ys. 1037 in Thorpe Charters (1865) 566/32 And Alfric biscop I biqueðe mine teld and min bedreaf. c 1205 Lay. 17491 Niȝe þusend teldes. Ibid. 24436 Þer weore on uelden moni þusend telden. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12598 Þey come to þe Emperours telde. When þey were at his pauyloun..þey lyghte alle doun. 13.. Childh. Jesus 44 in Herrig Archiv LXXIV. 327 That owtelawe tuke hire to his tilde [rimes wilde, childe, mylde]. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 127 Þese men..woneþ in tabernacles and in teeldis. a 1400–50 Alexander 4581 How suld ȝe telle withouten toles or any tild rere? c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 4656 Thei reysed vp bothe halle and tylde. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 488/1 Telte, or tente, tentorium. ? a 1500 Chester Pl. vii. 6 From stif stormes my sheepe to sheild..Under Tildes them to hyde. |
b. The tilt or awning of a boat or vessel: cf. tilt.
| 1307–8 Acc. Exch. K. R. Bd. 14 No. 14 (P.R.O.), Tieldes emptis..pro dicta Bargia. 1495 Wills Doctors' Commons (Camden) 3 The barge with bailles, tilde, and ores belonging to the same. |
c. A cage for carrying hawks.
| 1391 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 88 Pro tieldes per ipsum emptis ibidem ad cariandum les haukes, xiiij scot. |
d. Comb., as teld-stede, dwelling-place, ‘tabernacle’; teldwyrhta (OE.), tent-wright, tentmaker.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 392 Paulus..seðe wæs on woruld⁓cræfte teld-wyrhta. a 1300 E.E. Psalter cxix. [cxx.] 5 Wa to me, for mi telde-stede swa Forth-ferred es me fra [1388 Wyclif ibid., My dwelling in an alien lond is maad long]. |
▪ II. † teld, tild, v. Obs.
Forms: inf. 1 *teld-ian, 2–3 teld-en, tild-en, 3–5 teld(e, tild, 5 tield. pa. tense. α. 1 teldede, -ode, 4–5 tilded(e, teildid. β. (3 tȝelt), 4 tilde, teilde, 4–5 teld, telt, tilld (tillede), tulde, tilte, 4–6 telde, 5–6 tild. pa. pple. α. 1 *(ᵹe)telded, 3 i-tælded, 3–4 i-telded, 4 telded, 4–5 -id, -it, 5 i-teldyde, 6 Sc. tyldit, -et. β. 4 y-telde, y-tielde, 4–5 ytelt (i-tilled), teld, -e, 4 teeld, -e, 5 y-teld, y-tilde, tild.
[OE. teldian wk. vb., f. teld n.; = ON. tjalda. In ME. the d of the stem was often merged in that of the pa. tense and pa. pple. This brought the vb. into contact with till v., pa. tense tilde.]
1. trans. To ‘spread’, set up, pitch (a tent); hence, to erect (a building of any kind), to build, raise. Also fig.
| c 725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 591 Con[n]ectit, teldat. c 1205 Lay. 17489 Weoren a þan walde teldes itælded. 13.. K. Alis. 3434 (Bodl. MS.) Pauylouns were alle wiþinne Strongelich ytelt [Linc. Inn MS. y-tielde] by gynne. Ibid. 3464 Þe kyng þer telt [v.r. teildid] his pauylouns. Ibid. 5885 There biside his pauylouns, Weren y-telde by dales and dovnes. 13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 795 Towre telded bytwene trochet ful þik. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 44 Ten þousend of Tentes I-tilled [v.rr. I-teldyde, teldit, teled] be-sydes. 1388 Wyclif 2 Sam. xvi. 22 Therfor thei tildeden Absolon a tabernacle in the soler. c 1400 Destr. Troy 11664 Here he tild vp a temple of a trew godde. a 1400–50 Alexander 1159 A hiȝe tilde as a toure teldid on schippis. Ibid. 2174 (Dubl. MS.) To tergarontes he tiȝt þar telde was a mynster. c 1460 Launfal 263 A pavyloun yteld he sygh. 1515 Scot. Field 38 in Chetham Misc. (1856) II, Beside the towne of Tirwin, our tentes downe we telden. |
2. intr. To pitch one's tent; to encamp; to take one's station or residence; in pa. pple. encamped, lodged, stationed.
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 1840 Iacob fro ðeðen wente, ic wot, tȝelt on a stede, and cald it sochot. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12588 [On] þat playne..were þe Romayns telded. c 1330 ― Chron. (1810) 242 Biside a more a mod quayntly was he teld. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xv. 150 Ryȝt as traianus, þe trewe knyght, tulde [v.rr. tillede, telde; B. xii. 210 tilde, tilte, dwelte] nat deep in helle. a 1400 Pistill of Susan 56 Þeos perlous prestes..turned fro his teching, þat teeld [v.rr. teelde, told] is in trone. c 1440 York Myst. x. 14 Wher I was telde vnder a tree. |
3. trans. Sc. To cover with an awning or curtain.
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. 432 Reparrellit was that god⁓like plesand wone Tyldit abone, and to the eirth adoun. 1825 Jamieson s.v. Tyld, A window is said to be tyldit, when it is covered in the inside with a cloth or curtain. |
4. To spread (a net), set (a trap or snare). (See also till v.)
| c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Thorpe) xxxiv. 8 Hi teldedon gryne and ða ᵹehyddon. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 53 Þenne þe mon wule tilden his musestoch he bindeð uppon þa swike chese. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 211 At pleȝe [þe deuel] teldeð þe grune of idelnesse. a 1225 Ancr. R. (Corpus MS.: Camden 334), Triste is þer me sit mid te greahunz forte kepe þe heare, oðer tildeð [so Cleop., Caius; Titus tildes; Nero tillen; Vern. tilleþ] þe nettes aȝein him. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) i. xviii. 14 Teldyng nettes, arrayng trappys and other engynes. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 164 A green another hath for hem ytilde. |
Hence † telding (tildunge) vbl. n., laying of snares.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 278 Seint Antonie þet iseih al þene world ful of þes deofles tildunge. |
▪ III. teld, -e, -en
obs. inflexions of tell v.