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Slane

//sleɪn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in County Meath, Ireland.
  2. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A one-eared spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft. Ireland

    "Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘Slanes’."

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish sleán, sleaghán.

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