yeild

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yeild

  1. Misspelling of yield.
    • 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 1, in R W Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817  [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 16:
      What in the name of Common Sense is to recommend Brinshore?—A most insalubrious Air—Roads proverbially detestable—Water Brackish beyond example, impossible to get a good dish of Tea within 3 miles of the place—& as for the Soil—it is so cold & ungrateful that it can hardly be made to yeild a Cabbage.