Slans vs Slane - What's the difference?
slans | slane |
(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