Slade
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /sleɪd/
Origin
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 slǣd ("valley, glade").
Full definition of slade
Noun
slade
(plural slades)- (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
- (obsolete) The sole of a plough.
- , 1945-01-29 , , Pattern Prays , 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."