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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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But he slade aye awa or the sun was up, He ne’er could look straught on Macmillan’s cup;58 They watch’d—but nane saw him his brose ever sup Nor a spune sought Aiken-drum.

From Spare Hours by John Brown

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

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

That theffe I saw to nyght, Here be-side a slade.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

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

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