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

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 Cawein, Madison Julius

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 Brown, John

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

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

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 McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker)

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 MacDonald, George

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

From Brut by Mason, Eugene

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 Cawein, Madison Julius