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Slape vs Slane - What's the difference?

slape | slane |

As an adjective slape

is slippery; smooth.

As a noun slane is

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

slape

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) slippery; smooth
  • (UK, dialect) crafty; hypocritical

    • Derived terms

    * slape ale (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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