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▪ I. slade, n.1|sleɪd|
Forms: 1 slead, sled, 1–3 slæd, 9 dial. slad (sled); (1–3 dat.) 4– slade (3–4 sclade), 5–6 Sc. slaid, 6 slaide.
[OE. slæd (slead, sled) neut., = Norw. dial. slad neut. (also slade masc.), a slope, hollow; cf. also Da. dial. slade a piece of level ground (16th cent. in Kalkar), G. dial. (Westph.) slade dell, ravine.
The OE. nom. and acc. slæd is represented by the mod. dial. form slad, current chiefly in western counties. The usual slade is from inflected forms, esp. the dat. sing.]
A valley, dell, or dingle; an open space between banks or woods; a forest glade; a strip of greensward or of boggy land.
The precise application of the word varies in different localities: see the Eng. Dial. Dict.
c893K. ælfred Oros. ii. iv. 76 Hio..beforan þæm cyninge farende wæs,..oð hio hiene ᵹelædde on an micel slæd. 944in Earle Land Charters 179 Andlang dic oð ðone weᵹ þe scyt to fealuwes lea on þam slade. 956Ibid. 192 Þonne on þæt slæd, þonne of ðan slæde [etc.]. c1205Lay. 8585 He ferde..in to ane muchele slæde, & slahliche his folc hudde. Ibid. 28365 Þe niht heom to-delde, ȝeond slades & ȝeon dunen. 13..Guy Warw. 3475 Wiþ strengþe þe helde þai vnder-nome, Wiþ strengþe þai wene þe slade ouer-go. 1390Gower Conf. II. 93 Hou he clymbeth up the banckes And falleth into Slades depe. c1440Pallad. on Husb. ix. 176 In conditis descende into the slade Hit may, and on that other side arise. 1470–85Malory Arthur vi. xiii. 203 Ther by in a slade he sawe four knyghtes houyng vnder an oke. 1513Douglas æneid xi. xi. 84 In dern sladis and mony scroggy slonk. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. vi. 97 The Ethiopians..gather together into a long slade betwixte two hilles, a great deale of rubbeshe. 1606J. Reynolds Dolarnys Primerose (1880) 62 Thus as the medowes, forests and the feelds, In sumptuous tires, had deckt their daynty slades. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 81 If you consider that all your Common Fields were never under Tillage neither, As great part Slades and Hade wayes, and a great part Meadow. 1700–1Gough Hist. Myddle (1875) 37 You will finde it more unlevell with banks and deep slades, than any other low grounds in the Lordship. 1811Willan in Archaeologia XVII. 158 Slade, a breadth of green-sward in plough'd land, or in plantations. 1855Bailey Mystic, etc. 137 Lovers there she saw, arm-twining, in the wild wood's shadowy slade. 1899A. Morrison To London Town 5 Over the slade they took their way, where the purple carpet was patterned with round hollows.
transf.a1300Cursor M. 1258 Quen we war put o paradis vn-to þis wreched warld slade. 1598Drayton Heroical Ep. i. 115 When as the Sunne hales tow'rds the Westerne slade.
▪ II. slade, n.2 Now dial.|sleɪd|
Also 6–7 Sc. slaid.
[var. of slead or sled n.1]
A sledge.
a1585Montgomerie Flyting (Tull.) 86 Thow cwmelie conductit thy termes on ane slaid. 1661Reg. Privy Counc. Scotl. Ser. iii. I. 44 [Indwellers in Restalrig..thrust the complainer's servants off his said land,..and with carts and] slaids [carried away the whole crop]. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 339/1 A Slade..and a Tumbrell..are things used by Carters and Husbandmen, for the carriage of Commodities from place to place. 1787W. H. Marshall E. Norfolk (1795) II. 388. 1799 Young Agric. Linc. 157 They load it on slades, and carry it for grassing to an eaten eddish. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 306. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. 387.
▪ III. slade, n.3|sleɪd|
[Of obscure origin: perh. related to slide v.]
The sole of a plough.
1867J. & F. Howard Catal. Steam Cultivators, etc. 38 The wear of plough slades or soles, by sliding on the roads, is obviated [by the use of a wheeled sledge]. Ibid. 39 When a new breast is put on, a new slade should be put on also, or the plough will not stand level.
▪ IV. slade, v.1 dial. rare.|sleɪd|
[app. related to slide v.]
a. intr. To slide.
b. With down: (see quot. 1787).
1787W. H. Marshall E. Norfolk (1795) II. 388 To Slade down, to draw back part of the mould into the inter⁓furrow, with the plow dragging, or slading upon its side. 1895P. H. Emerson Birds, etc. Norf. Broadlands 186 They don't move their wings much—kind of slade along.
▪ V. slade, v.2 dial. rare.|sleɪd|
[f. slade n.2]
trans. To carry on a sledge.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 306 Heavy weights are easily sladed on level ground.
▪ VI. slade
obs. or Sc. pa. tense of slide v. |