Plural of gleed; multiple hot coals, live coals, or glowing embers.
Plural formed by adding '-s' to 'gleed,' which comes from Old English 'glēd' (hot coal), a word now archaic but still found in historical and poetic texts.
Medieval people would say they were tending 'gleeds' in the fire; the word survived in poetry (like Chaucer) much longer than in everyday speech, making it a visible trace of language history.
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