English
hade
Pronunciation
  • (RP, GA) IPA: /heɪd/
  • (Scotland) IPA: /hed/
Noun

hade (plural hades)

  1. (now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
Verb

hade (hades, present participle hading; past and past participle haded)

  1. (geology, mining) To slope or incline from the vertical.
    • 1935, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions, page 60:
      It was found, however, that where the coal haded away from the floor towards the face, as in Fig. 2(6), [...]
    • 1967, Mining and Minerals Engineering:
      The author details the benefits arising from arranging the quarry faces to be haded backwards at say 20-25° off vertical and to be of reasonable height, say 50-60ft. These include the reduction of danger ...
    • 2000, Lindsey Porter, John Albert Robey, The Copper & Lead Mines Around the Manifold Valley, North Staffordshire:
      Plot's observation that the veins haded to the north-east is consistent with the workings around Stone Quarry Mine but not the main Ecton Pipe at depth nor the mines from Clayton Pipe southwards.
Noun

hade (plural hades)

  1. (geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
    • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, quoted in 1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 34:
      The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother shades,
      And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades
      The daintie Clover growes (of grass the onely silke)
      That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.
    • 1885, The Rainbow, a magazine of Christian literature, volume 22, page 449:
      [...] as he must have done who had proudly passed by Lazarus on earth when he looked up and beheld how he was honoured in the higher hades.
    • 1935, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions, page 60:
      [...] due to the breaks at different hades, the projection might occur at any point from the floor to halfway up the seam.
Noun

hade (plural hades)

  1. (British, dialects, obsolete) A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
    • 1615, in a Map in Corpus Christi College, Oxon, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary:
      [...] certeine arable landes some of them havinge hades of meadow and grasse grounde lieinge in the Southe fielde of Einsham.
    • 1635, Terrier, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary:
      6 rodes with hades at both ends. 2 Landes 4 ro. with hades.
    • 1534 [original], Anthony Fitzherbert, Husbandry, republished as Ancient Tracts concerning the Management of landed Property, republished, in The Monthly Review, or Journal (1767), page 270:
      And oxen wyl plowe in tough cley [...] And whereas is now suerall pastures, there the horse plowe is better, for the horses may be teddered, or tyed upon leys, balkes, or hades, whereas oxen may not be kept: and it is used to tedder them, but in fewe places.
    • Ecclesiastical Terriers of Warwickshire Parishes, volume 22 (printed in 1955), page 36:
      [Item] . . . . . [w]th hades at both endes in the furlong called longe Furlonge of Thomas Vades on the north side and the aforesaide Mr [Bury] [so]wth side.


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