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hade

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The angle of inclination from the vertical of a vein, fault, or lode.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In mining, to underlay or incline from a vertical position.
  • noun A slope; the descent of a hill.
  • noun In mining, the inclination of a vein from a vertical position; the complement of the dip: synonymous with underlay. Also hading.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb (Mining) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
  • noun obsolete The descent of a hill.
  • noun (Mining) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.
  • noun (Geol. & Mining) The deviation of a fault plane from the vertical.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, obsolete To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
  • verb geology To slope from the vertical
  • noun geology The slope of a vein or fault from the vertical; the complement of the dip
  • noun obsolete Person (in all senses).
  • noun obsolete Sex; gender.
  • noun Scotland Order; estate; rank; degree; holy or religious orders.
  • noun Scotland State; condition; quality; kind.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English hadien, hodien, from Old English hādian ("to ordain, consecrate"), from Old English hād ("rank, order, office, holy office"). See above.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English had, hed, hod, 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-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāi- (“light, bright, shining”). Cognate with Old Saxon hēd ("consition, rank"), Old High German heit ("person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank"), Old Norse heiðr ("honour, dignity"; > Danish hæder ("honour"), Swedish heder ("honour")), Gothic  (haidus, "way, manner"). Same as -hood.

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Origin uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.

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Examples

  • Tio år i Silicon Valley, och allt Murray Swain hade fått ut av det var en bilring, begynnande flint och ett liv som var ensamt och tomt och genomruttet.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • 'Tis an odd-looking affair; the collar of it repulses his "ossifer hat" from the top of his "hade;" the tail, long and forked, striking his hams at every step, and two great rusty epaulets on his shoulders -- enough to weigh down a man of less patriotic spirit, and on a less patriotic occasion.

    Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

  • And they still hade to track his Moose for over a mile after being shot with a 225 grain Barnes in the shoulder.

    The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from gman3186 wrote 25 weeks 5 days ago toppin off the clip with blanks is just wrong what if the biggest buck he hade ever seen walked out and he cut loose but got no deer. anybody who does that needs to be prepared to take a live round in the rear end

    Has anyone ever pulled any good hunting pranks? 2009

  • After hearing the comments hade by both of my Kentucky Senators ...

    Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics' 2009

  • And they still hade to track his Moose for over a mile after being shot with a 225 grain Barnes in the shoulder.

    The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from gman3186 wrote 25 weeks 5 days ago toppin off the clip with blanks is just wrong what if the biggest buck he hade ever seen walked out and he cut loose but got no deer. anybody who does that needs to be prepared to take a live round in the rear end

    Has anyone ever pulled any good hunting pranks? 2009

  • The players talked about love in the aftermath of the Super Bowl and the Giants hade made no secret of their closeness.

    Tight End Tops the List For Next Season's Giants Aditi Kinkhabwala 2012

  • In reaction to the PRA paper, Pat Newberry , chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers' financial-regulation practice, said the PRA hade made it clear that insurers would need to provide far more precise information and improve the accurate of data going into their internal models.

    U.K. Seeks to Scrutinize Insurers Vladimir Guevarra 2011

  • Went up to a lake in Washington State and hade a great day of Kokanee fishing!!

    Kids Fishing Photos 2009

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