Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spade for cutting turf or digging trenches.
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- noun a spade for cutting
turf orpeat , consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Ireland, is employed the "slane," a common form of which is shown in fig. 3, it being a long, narrow and sharp spade, 20 inches by six, with
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I wanna no who slane teh doggeh that teh kitteh is layin on?
I HAS SLAIN DA DRAGON - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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All man eschaped, except the sone of the said Patrik, a boy of ten or tuelf yearis of aige, who being slane, was had to the Quenis presence.
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The lawer transe was condempned, diverse slane into it, and the East blok-house was schote of fra the rest of the place, betuix ten houris and ellevin.
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In that same battell was slane the Maister of Erskin, [537] deirlie beloved of the Quein, for whome she maid great lamentatioun, and bayre his death many dayis in mind.
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Bow, war slane David Kirk and David Barbour, (being at the Provostes back,) and thareafter war slane the said Provest himself, being Lard of
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Schir Robert Bowes [550] so was tane, and the most parte of the Borderaris war eyther tackin or slane.
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But yit he had devised to have cutt of such as he thought mycht cummer him; for he had appointed the haill gentilmen of Fyff to have mett him at Falkland, the Mononday after that he was slane upoun the
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Whitther this was to fulfill thare law, which commandis places whare Cartlinalles ar slane so to be used; or ellis for fear that England should have takin it, as after thei did
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And this was satisfactioun more then yneuht, [566] for the slawchter of the said Capitane and Provest, and for the slawghter of such as war slane with him.
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knitandpurl commented on the word slane
"They miss, too, the wooden turf carts that lie weathered and rain-pocked at the side of the road. They miss the angle of the slanes, leaning up against the carts."
- "Transatlantic" by Colum McCann, p 103of the April 16, 2012 issue of the New Yorker
April 18, 2012