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Glade vs Slade - What's the difference?

glade | slade |

In obsolete terms the difference between glade and slade

is that glade is a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds while slade is the sole of a plough.

As nouns the difference between glade and slade

is that glade is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest while slade is a valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.

As a proper noun Slade is

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glade

English

(wikipedia glade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
  • * 2003 , Newsweek, Travel: 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.
  • * 1851 ,
    • [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
  • (colloquial) An everglade.
  • an open space in the ice on a river or lake
  • a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
    • 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: A Writing Exercise
  • (obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
  • (obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "glade")

    Derived terms

    * moonglade * sunglade

    References

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    slade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
  • *, Bk.V:
  • *:Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
  • (obsolete) The sole of a plough.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=1945-01-29, magazine=Time Magazine
    • , title= Pattern Prays , passage=The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters

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