Pronunciations (2)
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/heɪd/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/hed/
Pronunciation notes
- Scotland
Noun
State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
Usage- Scotland
- dialectal
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And I tolde the of the good hade of my God which was vpo me:
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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.
Verb
To slope or incline from the vertical.
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It was found, however, that where the coal haded away from the floor towards the face, as in Fig. 2(6), [...]
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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.
Noun
A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
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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.
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[...] due to the breaks at different hades, the projection might occur at any point from the floor to halfway up the seam.
The face was developed to a good hade and appeared to be satisfactory ;
Laterally continuous normal faulting with differing fault plane dip directions sometimes appears as scissor faulting on plans, but detailed study can show separate throw maxima not coincident with the 'cross-over'; these are better considered as indivicual faults. No good hade information is yet available for faults in this situation.
Noun
A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
- Obsolete
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… 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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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.
[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.