gleds

"Or members o 'session," said sleeky Carment of the Kirkland, who had twice escaped the stool of repentance on the ground that, as he urged upon the body, "gleds [hawks] shouldna pike gleds een oot."

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

Dinna let the wee yins wi 'the lang riven taes and the nebs like gleds [beaks like kites] get haud o' me!

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

An 'a' thae greedy gleds (kites) o 'professors to pay, that live upo' the verra blude and banes o 'sair-vroucht students!

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Robert Ringhorse used to say, the herd lads shot as mony gleds and pyots as they did game.

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

“The waur for the country, Mr. Bindloose,” replied the old lady — “they were decent, considerate men, that didna plague a puir herd callant muckle about a moorfowl or a mawkin, unless he turned common fowler — Sir Robert Ringhorse used to say, the herd lads shot as mony gleds and pyots as they did game. —

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

a monastic gloom, a desertion, a melancholy, a uniform and voiceless silence, broken only by the croak of the gleds and the cawing of the clamorous gulls nestling on the old church tower, while the sea booms incessantly as it rolls on the rocky beach.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

"They were decent, considerate men, that didna plague a puir herd callant muckle about a moorfowl or a mawkin, unless he turned common fowler -- Sir Robert Ringhorse used to say, the herd lads shot as mony gleds and pyots as they did game.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836