A Scottish and Northern English dialectal word for a kite (the bird of prey).
From Middle English 'glede,' of Germanic origin, related to Old High German 'glito' and Scandinavian languages, originally meaning 'kite' (bird) in Anglo-Saxon.
The word 'gled' survived in Scottish and Northern dialect while most of England switched to 'kite'—it's a linguistic fossil showing which words got swept away by southern English dominance.
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