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Webster 1913 Edition
Slade
Slade
,Noun.
[AS.
sl[GREEK]d
.] 1.
A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
2.
The sole of a plow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slade
SLADE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Slade
slade
slade
English
Noun
slade (plural slades)
- (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.V:
- Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.V:
- (obsolete) The sole of a plough.
- 1945 January 29, “Pattern Prays”, in Time Magazine:
- 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."
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