Definitions
exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
Word origin
From Middle English jade, chade, either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (elde) or Erzya эльде (elde). See yaud for more.
Used in a sentence
“Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade.”
“That Iade hath eate bread from my Royall hand. / This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.”
“[F]requent jot / Of his hard ſetting jade did ſo confound / The vvords that he by papyr-ſtealth had got, / That their loſt ſenſe the youngſter could not ſound, / Though he vvith mimical attention did abound.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Green ornamental stone”4 letters
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