GLEDE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]

2.
n.

A live coal. [Archaic] The cruel ire, red as any glede. Chaucer.


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