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Slaie vs Slane - What's the difference?

slaie | slane |

As nouns the difference between slaie and slane

is that slaie is a weaver's reed; a sley while slane is a spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft.

slaie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A weaver's reed; a sley.
    • (Webster 1913)

    slane

    English

    Alternative forms

    * slean

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ireland) a spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft
  • :* 1997': Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘'''Slanes ’. — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon

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