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yedding

noun

Etymology

From Middle English eorþing (“burial, digging”), from eorþien (“to bury, dig”), from eorþe (“earth”), equivalent to earth + -ing. Possibly influenced by Middle English earding (“habitation, dwelling”), from eard (“dwelling, habitation”), from Old English eard (“native soil, native land, native country, country, province, region, place of residence, dwelling, home, dwelling place, estate, cultivated ground”). More at earth.

  1. inherited from eard
  2. inherited from earding
  3. inherited from eorþing

Definitions

  1. A song, especially the song of a minstrel.

  2. A popular tale or romance, or a song embodying a popular tale or romance.

    • By the fifteenth century a yedding is glossed as a romance.

  3. present participle and gerund of yed

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A burrow

      A burrow; a mole or rabbit hole.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yedding. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA