gledge, v. Sc.
(glɛdʒ)
[Of obscure origin; cf. glee, gleg vbs.]
intr. ‘To look asquint, to take a side view; to look cunningly and slily on one side’ (Jam.).
| 1805 A. Scott Poems 56 (Jam.) Here cautious love maun gledge a-squint, And stounlins feast the ee. 1813 Hogg Queen's Wake i. 71 The corby craw cam gledgin near, The ern gede veeryng bye. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xxvi, Let them be gentles allenarly, without ony fremd servants..to be gledging and gleeing about. |
Hence gledge n., a side-glance; a sly look.
| 1816 Scott Old Mort. xxxviii, He gae a gledge wi' his ee, that I kenn'd he took up what I said. |