Definition of "slade"

slade¹

/sleɪd/

noun
plural slades
1. (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
  Quotations
  Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889,
  The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother slades,And on the lower Leas, as on the higher HadesThe daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke)That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.
  1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 222
2. (dialectal) A hillside.

slade²

/sleɪd/

noun
plural slades
1. A spade for digging peat.
2. (obsolete) The sole of a plough.
  Quotations
  The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters […] in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough."
  1945 January 29, “Pattern Prays”, in Time Magazine