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▪ I. slane Anglo-Irish.|sleɪn|
Also slean.
[ad. Ir. sleaghán.]
A long-handled spade, having a wing at one or both sides of the blade, used in Ireland for cutting turf.
1750W. Ellis Mod. Husb. IV. iv. 40 Dig your trench with slanes. 1778Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 96 They are cut by an instrument called a slane, which is..a spade of about four inches broad, with a steel blade of the same breadth, standing at right angles to the edge of the spade. 1847Paddiana I. 307 Two or three slanes..being propped up against it [the door]. 1902Blackw. Mag. Aug. 265/1 They brought me a spade and a slane for turf-cutting. 1951Engineering 6 Apr. 389/2 ‘Sleans’ are used to cut the peat. 1976J. Hayes Missing (1977) v. 203 The man's had his slean out for me since we cut the turf together... Had me unfrocked, he did. 1977J. Hodgins Invention of World iii. 74 When some turf-cutter drives his slean into the peat in that desolate valley [etc.].
Comb.1892J. Barlow Irish Idylls 172 There isn't a spade-load of good slane turf.
▪ II. slane
var. of slain n.; obs. pl. sloe. |