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hamald, hamelt, hamel, a. (n.) Sc.|ˈhem(ə)ld, -(ə)lt, -(ə)l|
Forms: 5 hameholde, 6 hamald, hammald, hamhald, 6–7 haim(e)hald, haymhald(e, 8–9 hamelt, -eil, -el, -il, 9 hamilt.
[A deriv. of hame home, app. akin to ON. heimoll, heimull, heimill homely, domestic, household-.]
Belonging to home, domestic; home-grown, home-made; homely, vernacular; unpolished.
a1400Morte Arth. 1843 Hethynge es hame holde, vse it who so wille. 1513Douglas æneis i. ii. 27 Cariand to Italy Thair vincust hammald goddis. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Haimhaldarf, Hamhald lint, or haimhald hemp, is that quhilk growis at haime. 1722Ramsay Three Bonnets iv, Thus I ha'e sung in hamelt rhyme. a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 24 (Jam.) To chaunt their hameil lays. 1805J. Nicol Poems I. 93 (Jam.) To send some hamelt, rustic lays. 1809J. Skinner's Misc. Poet. 179 Critic, or bard, or hamil kine, Or high degree. 1832–53Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) Ser. iii. 5 Auld hamilt cheer.
†B. n. In phr. borgh of haimhald (Old Sc. Law), a pledge exacted from a seller of an article that it is home produce. Obs.
c1400Burrow Lawes c. 128. §1 Na man sall buy any thing within burgh, without the seller finde him sufficient borgh of haymhalde. c1575Balfour Practicks (1754) 210 Except the sellar find him ane sufficient pledge thairanent, and borgh of hamehald. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 15.
Hence † hamald, haimhald v. (Old Sc. Law), to prove (something withholden or claimed by another) to be one's own property. Obs.
c1575Balfour Practicks (1754) 523 The persewar sall hame-hald, and with him away have, the said beist or cattel. 1609Skene tr. Quon. Attach. c. 10 §6 The challenger sall haymhalde [debet haymaldare] that thing, as his awin. |