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Webster 1913 Edition
Sloe
Sloe
(slō)
, Noun.
[OE.
slo
, AS. slā
; akin to D. slee
, G. schlehe
, OHG. slēha
, Dan. slaaen
, Sw. slån
, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. Slow
); cf. Lith. slywa
a plum, Russ. sliva
.] (Bot.)
A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (
Prunus spinosa
); also, the tree itself. Webster 1828 Edition
Sloe
SLOE
,Noun.