Obs. exc. dial. Also eilding, eyldynge, eldin, elden(e, eldinge. [a. ON. eldíng, f. eldr fire. Cf. Da. ilding.] Fuel.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 3164. Ysaac þe elding broght.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 136. Eyldynge, or fowayle, focale.

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1580.  Churchw. Acc. Kirton-in-Lindsey, in Proc. Soc. Antiq., Ser. II. II. (1864), 14 April, 387. Item for eldene xij d. Ibid. (1648), in Peacock, N.-W. Linc. Gloss. (E. D. S.), To blind Sutton wife for elding.

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1705.  Inv., ibid., Eldin … and stocks and blocks 10s.

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1790.  A. Wilson, Elegy on Unfort. Tailor. He’d sit, And ilka wee the eldin hit, And gab fu’ trimly.

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1816.  Scott, Antiq., xi. ‘Wadna ye be glad to buy a dram wi’t, to be eilding and claise?’

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1857.  E. Waugh, Lanc. Life, 140. Up blazed the inflammable eilding with a crackling sound.

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