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slade

noun
/sleɪd/UK

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *sladaną✻ — “to glide, slip”
  2. inherited from *sladą✻ — “glen, valley”
  3. inherited from *slad✻
  4. inherited from slæd — “valley, glade”
  5. inherited from slade — “low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”

Definitions

  1. A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.

    • 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.

  2. A hillside.

  3. A spade for digging peat.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The sole of a plough.

    2. A surname.

    3. A place name

      A place name:

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA