gied

Scots

Verb

gied

1. Simple past of gie.
   • 1715, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat^[1]:

     "Hoot na, Portmark, it was yersel' he was hittin' at, and the black e'e ye gied Kirsty six weeks syne."

   • 1920, James C. Welsh, The Underworld^[2]:

     "Auld Cabbage-heid didna' like me looking at Peter Rundell an' that's the way he gied me four, but I'll get a horse's hair too, an' his tawse 'll soon get wheegh.

   • 1910, William Le Queux, The House of Whispers^[3]:

     They div say as weel that Auld Nick himsel' was present, an' gied the decision that the Cardinal, wha was to be askit ower frae Stirlin', should dee.