slade

American  

[slayd] / sleɪd /

noun

• slades
  plural

1. British. (in some regional dialects) a grassy area, such as a small valley or gully, a clearing in a forest, or a hillside.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• slades
  plural

Example Sentences

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slade slades

My Julia's arms encircled me, An' saftly slade the hours awa', Till dawning coost a glimm'rin' e'e Upon the hills o' Gallowa'.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

For soul and sense had waxed amort To wold and weald, to slade and stream; And all he heard was her soft word As one adream.

From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Madison Julius Cawein

It would have been better for William-a-Trent to have been abed with sorrow—says the ballad—than to be that day in the greenwood slade to meet with Little John's arrow.

From Robin Hood by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

Straucht ower the water slade frae the mune   A glimmer o' cauld weet licht; Ane o' her horns rase the water abune,   And lampit across the nicht.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

An honest wabster to his trade, Whase wife's twa nieves were scarce weel-bred Gat tippence-worth to mend her head, When it was sair; The wife slade cannie to her bed, But ne'er spak mair.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The night separated them over slades and over downs; and Modred came so far forth, that he was at London.

From Brut by Eugene Mason

And all his soul did wax amort To stars, to hills, to slades, to streams, And it but held that sorceress fair As one of dreams.

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein