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

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

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

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

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

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