Definition of "chield" []

• A man; a fellow, chap. (noun)

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• "‘Aweel, ’ said the postilion, ‘it might be sae—I canna say against it, for I was not in the country at the time; but John Wilson was a blustering kind of chield, without the heart of a sprug."
• "'Aweel,' said the postilion, 'it might be sae, I canna say against it, for I was not in the country at the time; but John Wilson was a blustering kind of chield, without the heart of a sprug.'"
• "a blustering kind of chield, without the heart of a sprug. '"