glede
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[edit] English
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- IPA: /gli:d/
[edit] Etymology 1
From Old English glēd.
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glede (plural gledes)
- A live coal, an ember.
- 1955: It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it. — JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
[edit] Etymology 2
From Old English glida, akin to Icelandic gleetha/gleea, Swedish glada. Compare glide.
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glede (plural gledes)
- Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.
[edit] Norwegian
[edit] Noun
glede m. (definite singular gleden; indefinite plural gleder; definite plural gledene)