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glede

 (glēd)
n.
Any of several birds of prey, especially a European kite (Milvus milvus).

[Middle English, from Old English glida; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]
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glede

(ɡliːd) or

gled

n
(Animals) a former Brit name for the red kite. See kite14
[Old English glida; related to Old Norse gletha, Middle Low German glede]
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That afternoon the young ladies from the Rectory (one of them read Goethe with a dictionary, and the other had strug- gled with Dante for years), coming to see Miss Swaffer, tried their German and Italian on him from the doorway.
The old name in the North-East for the red kite was the "glead" or "gled" from the Anglo-Saxon "to glide".