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GokuZool

04-19-2002 07:44 AM

What does glede mean? It isn't in any of the dictionaries I have. I found the word when I was reading LOTR- The Fellowship of the Ring. It's around page 330..This is what I read..

It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede..

Any ideas [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img] ? My quess is that it is a really old word not used anymore..or most probably a miss print.

Donut

04-19-2002 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GokuZool:
What does glede mean? It isn't in any of the dictionaries I have. I found the word when I was reading LOTR- The Fellowship of the Ring. It's around page 330..This is what I read..

It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede..

Any ideas [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img] ? My quess is that it is a really old word not used anymore..or most probably a miss print.

A glede is an archaic word for a hot coal. You are right - it isn't used anymore. It was used during Chaucer's time.

GokuZool

04-19-2002 07:51 AM

Thank-You Donut! I will sleep easy tonight knowing that ;)

/)eathKiller

04-19-2002 08:21 AM

Cool, I learned something, now I can impress my freinds by boasting that they can't step over gledes and actually force them to do it :D

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