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teld.

A tent.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A tent.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

verb
  1. To lodge in a tent.

    obsolete · transitive
  2. To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

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

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of tell

    West-Country · Yorkshire · form-of · participle · past
    I teld you what happened.
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