slane

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slane^¹

/sleɪn/
/slɑːn/

Sounds like slain · Rhymes with -eɪn

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Borrowed from Irish sleán, sleaghán.

noun slanes · slean

Ireland A one-eared spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft. Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘Slanes’.

Slane^²

proper noun Slanes

A town in County Meath, Ireland.
A surname.

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@misc{slane_2026,
  title = {slane},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/slane},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}