Hade

Quick meaning: Hade is a noun meaning (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (geology, mining) To slope or incline from the vertical.
2. (geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
3. (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:

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

[...] 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.

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.

Word Forms

• hades
• had
• hading
• haded

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