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Definition of Slade
1. n. A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.
Definition of Slade
1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹
2. Noun. (context: now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) The sole of a plough. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slade
1. a little valley [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slade
Literary usage of Slade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"Proceeding by JO Slade and others against HA Smith, guardian, and others. ...
Mrs. Emily Harty Slade, the wife of JZ Slade, was likewise the mother and ..."
2. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"So Slade said it was a pity to waste life on so small a matter, and proposed that
the pistols be thrown on the ground and the quarrel settled by a ..."
3. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"CHAPTER X REALLY and truly, two-thirds of the talk of drivers and conductors had
been about this man Slade, ever since the day before we reached Julesburg. ..."
4. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1905)
"Mr. Slade also exhibited a view of the Chateau de Candiac, ... Mr. Slade concluded
by giving the following list of the portraits of Montcalm: * 1. ..."
5. The Bibliography of Vermont: Or, A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating in by Marcus Davis Gilman (1897)
"—Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the Tariff Bill, Delivered in the House of
Representatives, January 29, 1833. 8vo, pp. 24. —Speech on the subject of ..."
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