slane

American  

[slayn] / sleɪn /

noun

• slanes
  plural

1. a spade with two sides, one flat and one L-shaped and positioned at a right angle to the flat side, used to cut peat into blocks.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• slanes
  plural

Example Sentences

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slane slanes

Therefore, it shouldn’t make much difference whether you start a game with soare or slane.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2023

After all, it’s impossible to remember which consequent word is most appropriate for every color pattern that occurs after slane.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2023

In Ireland, is employed the "slane," a common form of which is shown in fig.

From Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel by Samuel W. (Samuel William) Johnson

The epitaph ran as follows:— here lies papa’s poor cotching chiney cock croolly slane by harry with his bow and arrie. he sleeps in peas.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables

He is twise fain, that sits on a slane.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy

Where once teams of men cut peat with hand tools or "slanes", donkeys carrying away the turf in baskets on their backs, now giant mechanical claws do the cutting.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2011