slade

plural slades

1. archaicdialectalA valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.

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

   1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC

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   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.

   1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 222

2. dialectalA hillside.

plural slades

1. A spade for digging peat.
2. obsoleteThe sole of a plough.

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   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."

   1945 January 29, “Pattern Prays”, in Time Magazine

plural Slades

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. A place name:
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Powell County, Kentucky, United States.
   2. countableuncountableA coastal village and townland on the Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland (Irish grid ref X 7498).
   3. countableuncountableA hamlet in Haverfordwest community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9416).
   4. countableuncountableA hamlet in Penrice community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4885).
   5. countableuncountableA hamlet in Sheldon parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST1108).
   6. countableuncountableA hamlet in Otterden parish, Maidstone district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9354).