a. Sc. [? var. of YELD a.] Of a cow: Not giving milk, from being in calf, or from age.
1822. W. J. Napier, Pract. Store-farming, 252. The gimmers giving milk will consume more grass than when eild.
1837. Lockhart, Scott (1839), VI. 20–1. No man could guess at how large a price Constable had estimated his ‘eild kye’ (cows barren from age)
