slanen.
/sleɪn/, /ʃleɪn/, U.S. /sleɪn/, Irish English /ʃlɒːn/, /ʃleːn/ Anglo-Irish.in combination.1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls 172 There isn't a spade-load of good slane turf.
A long-handled spade, having a wing at one or both sides of the blade, used in Ireland for cutting turf.
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1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June iv. 40 Dig your Trench with Slanes.
1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland 96 They are cut by an instrument called a slane, which is..a spade of about four inches broad, with a steel blade of the same breadth, standing at right angles to the edge of the spade.
1847 Paddiana I. 307 Two or three slanes..being propped up against it [the door].
1902 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 265/1 They brought me a spade and a slane for turf-cutting.
1951 Engineering 6 Apr. 389/2 ‘Sleans’ are used to cut the peat.
1976 J. Hayes Missing (1977) v. 203 The man's had his slean out for me since we cut the turf together... Had me unfrocked, he did.
1977 J. Hodgins Invention of World iii. 74 When some turf-cutter drives his slean into the peat in that desolate valley [etc.].
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