slade
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
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-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”).
Noun
slade (plural slades)
- (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
- Template:RQ:Mlry MrtArthr1
- Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
- Template:RQ:Mlry MrtArthr1
- (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."
Etymology 2
Noun
slade (plural slades)
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