hade

Pronunciation: /heɪd/

The English word “hade” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.

verb

To slope or incline from the vertical.

Etymology

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…

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