Definitions | slane |
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- (Anglo-Irish) a spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft
- 1997: Little McTiernan? at the Door is giving out short-handl"d Peat-Cutters styl"d, by the Irish, "Slanes". " Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
Etymology: Irish sleín, sleaghín.
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