breede

breede (plural breedes)

1. Archaic spelling of breed.

breede (third-person singular simple present breedes, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle breeded or bredde)

1. Archaic spelling of breed.

• beered, berede

breede

1. Alternative form of brede (“breadth”)

breede

1. Alternative form of bred (“bread”)

breede

1. Alternative form of breden (“to breed”)

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi (“bride”).

breede (plural brides)

1. bride

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 28