A Scottish or Northern English dialect form of 'hold'; can mean a grasp, grip, or the cargo hold of a ship.
Dialectal and Middle English variant of 'hold,' from Old English 'haldan.' Spelling reflects Scottish pronunciation patterns.
Hauld survives in Scottish dialect and place names, showing how English vowel shifts happened differently in various regions—it's a linguistic fossil from when English sounded quite different.
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