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noun
State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, dialectal
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noun
A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete
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verb
To slope or incline from the vertical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, geography, geology, mining, natural-sciences
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History
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 Saxon hēd (“condition, rank”), Old High German heit (“person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank”), Old Norse heiðr ("honour, dignity") (whence Danish hæder (“honour”), Swedish heder (“honour”)), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “way, manner”). Same as -hood.
Uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.
Probably from a dialectal or variant form of head. According to Sundby, from Middle English hade, havede, from Old English hēafdum, dative plural of hēafod (“head”) as evidenced in the Worcestershire bynames/surnames atte Haveden, atte Haden, although derivation from other inflected forms (where trisyllabic shortening then open-syllable lengthening would've occured; compare lady) is also possible, in which case the bynames would still attest the dative plural.
