What does yeartide mean?
Yeartide means (chiefly poetic or fantasy) A specific time of year; season..
Yeartide
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
(chiefly poetic or fantasy) A specific time of year; season..
Definitions by Sense
- (chiefly poetic or fantasy) A specific time of year; season.
- (nonstandard, rare) A specific time each year; anniversary.
Example Sentences
[…] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.
And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!
Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?
Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this yeartide — there among.
A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep: With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!
There will be a tourney in three days, as always at Yeartide. You could enter those events at which you may excel.
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[…] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.
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