Glade vs Glaive - What's the difference?
glade | glaive |
An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
* 2003 , Newsweek, Travel:
* 1851 ,
(colloquial) An everglade.
an open space in the ice on a river or lake
a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
(obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
(obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 52.:
A light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.
(poetically or loosely) A sword.
* The glaive which he did wield. — .
As nouns the difference between glade and glaive
is that glade is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest while glaive is a weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve.glade
English
(wikipedia glade)Noun
(en noun)In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003
- ... are creating more "glades ," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
- [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
- In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade . — Vignette:
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* (English Citations of "glade")Derived terms
* moonglade * sungladeReferences
glaive
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, sometimes reckoned among the pole axes.