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slane
slane
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Noun
slane (plural slanes)
- (Ireland) a spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft
- 1997: Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘Slanes’. — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon