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- noun Plural form of
glead .
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Thus, kites and buzzards sail round in circles, with wings expanded and motionless; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called, in the north of England, gleads, from the Saxon verb
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous
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Thus kites and buzzards sail round in circles with wings expanded and motionless; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England gleads, from the Saxon verb glidan, to glide.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756
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