Beild

Alternative forms

• beeld
• bield

Origin

Probably from the same root as build.

Full definition of beild

Noun

1. (Scotland, UK, dialect) A place of shelter; protection; refuge.
• 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book II, lxxxiv:This is our beild, the blust'ring winds to shun.
• Robert BurnsThe random beild o' clod or stane.