bide tryst

English

Verb

bide tryst (third-person singular simple present bides tryst, present participle biding tryst, simple past bode tryst or bided tryst, past participle bidden tryst or bided tryst)

1. (UK, dialect, archaic) To wait for a person at the appointed place and time.

   Synonym: keep tryst

   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 165:

     "You walk late, sir," said I, as we met a second time.
     "I bide tryste," was the reply, "and so I think do you, Mr Osbaldistone."