hield

Meanings

Plural: hields

Verb

To bend; incline; tilt (as a water-vessel or ship); heel.
To pour out; pour.
To throw; cast; put.
To bow; bend; incline; tilt or cant over.
To decline; sink; go down.
To yield; give way; surrender.

Noun

An inclination; a cant.
An incline; slope.
A decline; decrease; wane.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English heelden, helden, from Old English hieldan, heldan (“to lean, incline, slope, force downwards, bow or bend down”), from Proto-West Germanic *halþijan, from Proto-Germanic *halþijaną (“to bend, incline, pour, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to tilt, tip, incline”).
Cognate with Dutch hellen (“to incline”), Low German hellen (“to incline”), Middle High German helden (“to incline”), Danish hælde (“to tilt, lean, slant, slope”), Swedish hälla (“to tilt, pour”), Icelandic halla (“incline, lean sideways, heel over”), Icelandic hella (“to pur”). See also heel.

Synonyms

bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, skew, slight, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing

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