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hade

noun
/heɪd/US/hed/

Etymology

From Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir”), from Proto-West Germanic *haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāy- (“light, bright, shining”). Cognate with Old Saxon hēd (“condition, rank”), Old High German heit (“person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank”), Old Norse heiðr ("honour, dignity") (whence Danish hæder (“honour”), Swedish heder (“honour”)), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “way, manner”). Same as -hood.

  1. derived from *(s)kāy-✻ — “light, bright, shining”
  2. inherited from *haiduz✻ — “appearance, kind”
  3. inherited from *haidu✻
  4. inherited from hād — “person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir”
  5. inherited from hade

Definitions

  1. State

    State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.

    • And I tolde the of the good hade of my God which was vpo me:
    • My name was alle that I there gate, To wynne honour was onely the purpose Whiche that I tooke ; or that I come thereate, Other good hade I none than riche lose ;
    • And I said it was don he wolde not cum in in that furme, for a mon of his hade met me be ye way withe an endenture was not like to be fulfillet.

  2. To slope or incline from the vertical.

    • It was found, however, that where the coal haded away from the floor towards the face, as in Fig. 2(6), [...]
    • 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 ...
    • 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.

  3. A slope

    A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.

    • 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)
    • [...] 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.
    • [...] due to the breaks at different hades, the projection might occur at any point from the floor to halfway up the seam.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A headland

      A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.

      • … certeine arable landes some of them havinge hades of meadow and grasse grounde lieinge in the Southe fielde of Einsham.
      • 6 rodes with hades at both ends. 2 Landes 4 ro. with hades.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA