glede
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡliːd/
glede (plural gledes)
- A live coal, an ember or molten metallic bead such that skids or slides across a cooler surface.
- 1937: His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes. — JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water]
- 1955: It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it. — JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 2 - The Council of Elrond]
glede (plural gledes)
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