bieldy

comparative more bieldy · superlative most bieldy

1. ScotlandSheltered from the weather; affording shelter.

   The old Cameronian kirk sits on a hill, and is surrounded by trees, a place both bieldy and heartsome.

   c. 1900, S. R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat

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   His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times--the mair's the pity--he lies a' day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.

   1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete

   Then it was that they were wont to come over our seven hills and seven waters to help themselves to our cattle when the same were at their fattest and best It would be a skurry of bare knees down pass and brae, a ring of the robbers round the herd sheltering on the bieldy side of the hill or in the hollows among the ripe grass, a brisk change of shot and blow if alarm rose, and then hie! over the moor by Macfarlane's lantern.

   1898, Neil Munro, John Splendid

   Even the grass nodding in the wind lent a thin voice to the chorus, a voice such as only the sharp and sea-trained ear may comprehend, that beasts hear long before the wind itself is apparent, so that they remove themselves to the bieldy sides of the hills before tumult breaks.

   1899, Neil Munro, Gilian The Dreamer