eizel

English

Noun

eizel (plural eizels)

  1. Alternative form of izle
    • 1844, Alexander Whitelaw, The book of Scottish song, collected and illustr. with hist. and critical notices by A. Whitelaw, page 485:
      I hied me hame to my father's ha', My dear auld mither to see; But she lay 'mang the black eizels, Wi' the death-tear in her eie.
    • 2020, Robert Scott Fittis, The Mosstrooper, →ISBN, page 32:
      […] and kist and charters were burned to eizels, and gaed up in the air like peelings o' ingans. Still, my witnesses are passing gude; and, Sir Robert,  […]
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