Teld

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tent. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To lodge in a tent. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    simple past and past participle of tell West-Country, Yorkshire, form-of, participle, past

    "I teld you what happened."

  3. 3
    To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up. obsolete, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English teld, tield, telte, from Old English teld (“tent, pavilion, tabernacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“tent”), from Proto-Indo-European *delt- (“board”). Cognate with Middle Dutch telde, telt (“tent”), German Zelt (“tent”), Swedish tält (“tent”), Icelandic tjald (“tent”). Doublet of tilt and geteld.

Etymology 2

From Middle English telden (“to set up a tent”), from teld (“tent”). See above.

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