Obs. exc. dial. [app. identical with OE. ǽled, also alet (Grein) fire: see ELD sb.1] Fuel.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 119. Fir haueð on him þre mihtes on to giuende hete, oðer to giuende liht, þridde to weldende elet to none þinge.
c. 1320. Sir Beues, 3264. Wiþ oute þe toun hii piȝte a stake Þar þe fur was i-make … Þai fette wode and elet.
1847–78. Halliwell, Elet, fuel; ollit. Wilts.
