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UK
/ˈɛld/
]
NOUN
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a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
she was now of school age
tall for his eld -
a late time of life
on the brink of geezerhood
age hasn't slowed him down at all
old age is not for sissies
he's showing his years
a beard white with eld
How To Use eld In A Sentence
- Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
- But they want it knocked back into a field of muck and dirt. Times, Sunday Times
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- The funeral will be held according to church.
- Two more debates are scheduled in the coming weeks, one debate dealing with education and health will be held in Irbid next week and the final week before elections the southern city of Karak will witness a candidates debate on agriculture and development. Daoud Kuttab: Jordanian Candidate Uses Debate to Call for Curtailing King's Powers
- A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
- There were a few cows dotted around in the field.
- The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
- Only a bit of string looped round a nail in the doorpost held it shut.
- The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?