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gled

gled is the alternative form of glede.

Meaning of glede

Noun (1)

glede (plural gledes)

  1. Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.

Noun (2)

glede (plural gledes)

  1. A live coal; an ember.
    • His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes.1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water]

Forms of gled

pluralgleds

Questions about gled

What is gled the alternative form of?
Gled is the alternative form of glede.

Words near gled in the dictionary

  1. glebous
  2. glebulose
  3. gleby
  4. glecaprevir
  5. Gleckner
  6. gled
  7. glede
  8. gledes
  9. gledge
  10. gledged
  11. gledges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gled (page history and authors); glede (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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