yule(n = noun.time) christmas, christmastide, christmastime, noel, yuletide - period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6;
is a kind of season
is a part of jan, january, dec, december
has parts: boxing day
Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior. [1913 Webster]
"And at each pause they kiss; was never seen such rule
In any place but here, at bonfire, or at Yule." [1913 Webster]
yule, n. (in full yule-tide) archaic the Christmas festival.
Idiom:
yule-log
1 a large log burnt in the hearth on Christmas Eve.
2 a log-shaped chocolate cake eaten at Christmas.
Etymology:
OE geol(a): cf. ON j{oacute}l