gled's claws
We say of anything that has got into greedy keeping that it has "got into the gled's claws," where it will be kept until it be savagely devoured.
-John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
Took some searching to find what the gled was. A gled is a common European kite, a raptorial bird, such as the hawk or falcon. Gled has sometimes been applied as a name for the buzzard.
-John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
Took some searching to find what the gled was. A gled is a common European kite, a raptorial bird, such as the hawk or falcon. Gled has sometimes been applied as a name for the buzzard.
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