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slade |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slade \Slade\, n. [AS. sl?d.] 1. A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low moist ground. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. The sole of a plow. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sole \Sole\, n. [AS. sole, fr L. soolea (or rather an assumed L. sola), akin to solumround soil, sole of the foot. Cf {Exile}, {Saloon}, {Soil} earth, {Sole} the fish.] 1. The bottom of the foot; hence also rarely, the foot itself The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. --Gen. viii. 9. Hast wandered through the world now long a day Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. --Spenser. 2. The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom. The ``caliga'' was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep. --Arbuthnot. 3. The bottom or lower part of anything or that on which anything rests in standing. Specifially: a (Agric.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also {slade}; also the bottom of a furrow. b (Far.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts c (Fort.) The bottom of an embrasure. d (Naut.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel. --Totten. e (Mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes. {Sole leather}, thick, strong, used for making the soles of boots and shoes, and for other purposes. From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Slade, KY Zip code(s): 40376
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