Meanings
verb
alternative yeed · alternative yode
- literaryobsoleteTo go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 232
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Origin
- Old Englishēode
- Middle Englishyede
- Englishyede
From Middle English yede, from Old English ēode.
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APA
yede. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yede
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“yede.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yede. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yede,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yede.
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