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Slane vs Spane - What's the difference?

slane | spane |

As a noun slane

is (ireland) a spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft.

As a verb spane is

(obsolete|uk|dialect) to wean; to spean.

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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    spane

    English

    Verb

    (span)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To wean; to spean.
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