Slade

//sleɪd// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade. archaic, dialectal

    "Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys."

  2. 2
    A spade for digging peat.
  3. 3
    A hillside. dialectal
  4. 4
    The sole of a plough. obsolete

    "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.""

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A place name:; An unincorporated community in Powell County, Kentucky, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A place name:; A coastal village and townland on the Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland (Irish grid ref X 7498). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A place name:; A hamlet in Haverfordwest community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9416). countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A place name:; A hamlet in Penrice community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4885). countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A place name:; A hamlet in Sheldon parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST1108). countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A place name:; A hamlet in Otterden parish, Maidstone district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9354). countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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canyonvalevalley

Example

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"Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English slade (“low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”), from Old English slæd (“valley, glade”), from Proto-West Germanic *slad, from Proto-Germanic *sladą (“glen, valley”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sladaną (“to glide, slip”) or Proto-Germanic *sladdaz (“to be slack, droop”). Compare Old Norse slóð (“track, trail”).

Etymology 2

Unknown.

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