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hade

/heɪd/

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Scotland/hed/

hade noun: state; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.

Noun (1)

hade (plural hades)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
    • And I tolde the of the good hade of my God which was vpo me:1838, The Holy Scriptures, Faithfully and Truly
    • 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 ;1860, Thomas Occleve, De regimine principum

Verb

hade (third-person singular simple present hades, present participle hading, simple past and past participle haded)

  1. 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), [...]1935, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions, page 60
    • 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 ...1967, Mining and Minerals Engineering

Noun (2)

hade (plural hades)

  1. 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)1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, quoted in 1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 34
    • [...] 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.1885, The Rainbow, a magazine of Christian literature, volume 22, page 449

Noun (3)

hade (plural hades)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) 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.1615, in a Map in Corpus Christi College, Oxon, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary
    • 6 rodes with hades at both ends. 2 Landes 4 ro. with hades.1635, Terrier, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary

Examples of hade in a sentence

  • 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.1882, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, page 584:
  • 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.2000, Lindsey Porter, John Albert Robey, The Copper & Lead Mines Around the Manifold Valley, North Staffordshire:
  • [...] due to the breaks at different hades, the projection might occur at any point from the floor to halfway up the seam.1935, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions, page 60:
  • The face was developed to a good hade and appeared to be satisfactory ;1957, Great Britain. Mines and Quarries Inspectorate, Report of H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines and Quarries, page 34:

Forms of hade

Noun
pluralhades
alternative Scotlandhad
alternative Scotlandhaid
alternative formhod
alternative formhode
Verb
third-person singular presenthades
present participlehading
past participlehaded
pasthaded

Origin of hade

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.

Uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.

Probably from a dialectal or variant form of head. According to Sundby, from Middle English hade, havede, from Old English hēafdum, dative plural of hēafod (“head”) as evidenced in the Worcestershire bynames/surnames atte Haveden, atte Haden, although derivation from other inflected forms (where trisyllabic shortening then open-syllable lengthening would've occured; compare lady) is also possible, in which case the bynames would still attest the dative plural.

Words that rhyme with hade

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Questions about hade

What does hade mean?
Hade means state; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
How do you use hade in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is hade?
Hade can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce hade?
Hade is pronounced /heɪd/ (UK).
What is the plural of hade?
The plural of hade is hades.

Words near hade in the dictionary

  1. Haddons
  2. Haddow
  3. Haddox
  4. Haddoxes
  5. haddy
  6. hade
  7. Hadean
  8. Hadean time
  9. haded
  10. hadeda
  11. hadedah

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