a. Sc. and north. dial. Also 8 yawl, 9 yaul. [Origin unknown.] Active, sprightly, nimble; strong, vigorous.
1786. Har’st Rig, viii. A bang O’ Highlanders, a fendy rout, Baith yawl and strang.
1787. Burns, Lett. to W. Nicol, 1 June. She’s a yauld, poutherie Girran.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xliv. There’s mony yauld chiels amang thae volunteers.
1873. D. Maclagan, Heather, iii. in Mod. Scott. Poets, Ser. II. (1881), 177. Though somethin’ auld An’ no sae yauld.
