Slade
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /sleɪd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Slade is a noun meaning (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
Meaning
(now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
More Meanings
- A spade for digging peat.
- (dialectal) A hillside.
- (obsolete) The sole of a plough.
Example Sentences
Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother slades, And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke) That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.
The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters[…]in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough."
Word Forms
- slades
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include slack, laund, slue, slitch, slopeland, sole.
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