slade

American  

[slayd] / sleɪd /

noun

plural

slades

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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Example Sentences

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

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 Burns, Robert

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)

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

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

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