slead, n. Now dial.
(sliːd)
Forms: 4–6 slede, 7 sleede (9 sleed), 6–7 sleid(e, 6 sleydd, sleade, 6– slead (9 sleead).
[a. MDu. or MLG. slede (Du. slede, slee, LG. slede, släde, slee), = ON. and Icel. sleði (Norw. slede, Sw. släde, Da. slæde), OHG. slito, slita (MHG. slite): the stem slid- is the weak grade of the vb. slide.]
= sled n.1
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. met. i. 110 Þou..by my sledes shalt mowen retourne hool and sounde in to þi contre. 1382 Wyclif 1 Chron. xx. 3 The puple..he ladde out, and maad vpon hem pestelis, and sledis, and prowd yren charis, to gon ouer. 1406–7 Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 606, 1 slede empt. pro cariac. decimarum. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 458/2 Slede to draw wythe,..traha. 1555 Eden Decades (Arb.) 292 They trauayl in wynter on sleades. 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 808 Those that in Ivory Sleads on Ireland Seas (Congeal'd to Crystall) slide about at ease. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 459 They are not drawn upon wheels, but like drays and sleads upon the earth. 1644 Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial App. 64 The streets blocked up with caskes, carts, sleids, stooles. 1745 tr. Columella's Husb. ii. xxi, You may make use of the cart or dray made of rough boards, or of a slead. 1877–89 in Linc. and Chesh. glossaries. |
b. Rope-making. (Cf. sledge2 3.) Also attrib.
| 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 272/1 A Ropers Slead, a thing by which they Twist their Ropes. Ibid., By the first is the Rope Yarn Spun, or turned in the Slead, when it is Laid for the making of a Cable; and is generally termed a Slead Hook. |
Hence † slead v. intr. (with it), to travel in a sledge. Obs.—1
| 1689 C. Cotton Winter xxxiii, Look where Mantled up in White, He sleads it like the Muscovite. |