Meaning

(now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
2. (geology, mining) To slope or incline from the vertical.
3. (geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
4. (British, dialects, obsolete) A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.

Example Sentences

And I tolde the of the good hade of my God which was vpo me:

My name was alle that I there gate, To wynne honour was onely the purpose Whiche that I tooke ; or that I come thereate, Other good hade I none than riche lose ;

And I said it was don he wolde not cum in in that furme, for a mon of his hade met me be ye way withe an endenture was not like to be fulfillet.

It was found, however, that where the coal haded away from the floor towards the face, as in Fig. 2(6), [...]

The author details the benefits arising from arranging the quarry faces to be haded backwards at say 20-25° off vertical and to be of reasonable height, say 50-60ft. These include the reduction of danger ...

Plot's observation that the veins haded to the north-east is consistent with the workings around Stone Quarry Mine but not the main Ecton Pipe at depth nor the mines from Clayton Pipe southwards.

The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother shades, And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades The daintie Clover growes (of grass the onely silke)

[...] as he must have done who had proudly passed by Lazarus on earth when he looked up and beheld how he was honoured in the higher hades.

Word Forms

• hades
• had
• haid
• hod
• hode
• hading
• haded

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Use hade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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