abraid

Meanings

1. To wrench (something) out.
2. To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.
3. To wake up.
4. To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
5. To shout out.
6. To rise in the stomach with nausea.

1. Alternative form of abread.

Etymology

From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), of uncertain further origin. Equivalent to a- + braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).