gleed

From Middle English gleede, glede, from Old English glēd, glēde (“glowing coal, ember, fire, flame, instrument of torture”), from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz (“incandescence, glowing ember, burning ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gleed (“burning coal, ember”), Saterland Frisian Gloud (“blaze, fire”), Dutch gloed (“glow, blaze”), German Glut (“ember”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”). More at glow.

• Rhymes: -iːd

gleed (plural gleeds)

1. a glowing coal

• degel, edgel, glede, ledge, leged

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• Rhymes: -eːt

gleed

1. singular past indicative of glijden

• gelde, glede, legde