Meaning of slade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
   archaic, dialectal
3. A spade for digging peat.
4. A place name:
   countable, uncountable
5. An unincorporated community in Powell County, Kentucky, United States.
   countable, uncountable
6. A hillside.
   dialectal
7. The sole of a plough.
   obsolete
8. A coastal village and townland on the Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland (Irish grid ref X 7498).
   countable, uncountable
9. A hamlet in Haverfordwest community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9416).
   countable, uncountable
10. A hamlet in Penrice community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4885).
    countable, uncountable
11. A hamlet in Sheldon parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST1108).
    countable, uncountable
12. A hamlet in Otterden parish, Maidstone district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9354).
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.”

“The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother slades, And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke) That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.”

“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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