Crossword-Solution: GLEAD 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

But the downwards part of the mountain-side, though scarred, and seamed, and chasmed, was yet accessible--and more than one person in the parish had reached the bottom of the Glead's Cliff.

Once it was feared that poor wee Kit was lost; for having set off all by himself, at sunrise, to draw a night-line from the distant Black Loch, and look at a trap set for a glead, a mist overtook him on the moor on his homeward way, with an eel as long as himself hanging over his shoulder, and held him prisoner for many hours within its shifting walls, frail indeed, and opposing no resistance to the hand, yet impenetrable to the feet of fear as the stone dungeon's thraldom.

But the kite or glead, as the same distinguished ornithologist rightly says, is proverbial for the ease and gracefulness of its flight, which generally consists of large and sweeping circles, performed with a motionless wing, or at least with a slight and almost imperceptible stroke of its pinions, and at very distant intervals.

With regard to the old names of vermin, _Glead_ and _Ringteal_ are described by Osbaldiston, in his _Dictionary of Recreation_, as a sort of kite; the latter with whitish feathers about the tail.

KITE, or GLEAD (_Milvus ictinus_).--Was formerly common in Gairloch, but has not been observed for many years.