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glead

glead is the alternative form of glede.

Meaning of glede

Noun (1)

glede (plural gledes)

  1. Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.

Noun (2)

glede (plural gledes)

  1. A live coal; an ember.
    • His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes.1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water]

Forms of glead

pluralgleads

Questions about glead

What is glead the alternative form of?
Glead is the alternative form of glede.

Words near glead in the dictionary

  1. GLCM
  2. GLCMs
  3. GlcNAc
  4. GLCSE
  5. gld
  6. glead
  7. Gleadless
  8. Gleadless Townend
  9. gleads
  10. gleak
  11. gleaked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glead (page history and authors); glede (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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