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noun 
  1. (Anglo-Irish) a spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft
  • 1997: Little McTiernan? at the Door is giving out short-handl"d Peat-Cutters styl"d, by the Irish, "Slanes". " Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
Etymology: Irish sleín, sleaghín.


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