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.
Meanings
(Scotland, dialectal) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
My name was alle that I there gate, To wynne honour was onely the purpose Whiche that I tooke ; or that I come thereate, Other good hade I none than riche lose ; 1860, Thomas Occleve, De regimine principum:
And I said it was don he wolde not cum in in that furme, for a mon of his hade met me be ye way withe an endenture was not like to be fulfillet. 1882, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, page 584:
And I tolde the of the good hade of my God which was vpo me: 1838, The Holy Scriptures, Faithfully and Truly:
A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
Laterally continuous normal faulting with differing fault plane dip directions sometimes appears as scissor faulting on plans, but detailed study can show separate throw maxima not coincident with the 'cross-over'; these are better considered as indivicual faults. No good hade information is yet available for faults in this situation. 1984, Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings - Volume 45, page 161:
[...] as he must have done who had proudly passed by Lazarus on earth when he looked up and beheld how he was honoured in the higher hades. 1885, The Rainbow, a magazine of Christian literature, volume 22, page 449:
[...] due to the breaks at different hades, the projection might occur at any point from the floor to halfway up the seam. 1935, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions, page 60:
The face was developed to a good hade and appeared to be satisfactory ; 1957, Great Britain. Mines and Quarries Inspectorate, Report of H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines and Quarries, page 34:
The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother shades,
And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades
The daintie Clover growes (of grass the onely silke) 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, quoted in 1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 34
The author details the benefits arising from arranging the quarry faces to be haded backwards at say 20-25° off vertical and to be of reasonable height, say 50-60ft. These include the reduction of danger ... 1967, Mining and Minerals Engineering:
It was found, however, that where the coal haded away from the floor towards the face, as in Fig. 2(6), [...] 1935, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions, page 60:
Plot's observation that the veins haded to the north-east is consistent with the workings around Stone Quarry Mine but not the main Ecton Pipe at depth nor the mines from Clayton Pipe southwards. 2000, Lindsey Porter, John Albert Robey, The Copper & Lead Mines Around the Manifold Valley, North Staffordshire:
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.
Meanings
(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
… certeine arable landes some of them havinge hades of meadow and grasse grounde lieinge in the Southe fielde of Einsham. 1615, in a Map in Corpus Christi College, Oxon, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary
And oxen wyl plowe in tough cley … And whereas is now suerall pastures, there the horse plowe is better, for the horses may be teddered, or tyed upon leys, balkes, or hades, whereas oxen may not be kept: and it is used to tedder them, but in fewe places. 1534 [original], Anthony Fitzherbert, Husbandry, republished as Ancient Tracts concerning the Management of landed Property, republished, in The Monthly Review, or Journal (1767), page 270
[Item] . . . . . [w]th hades at both endes in the furlong called longe Furlonge of Thomas Vades on the north side and the aforesaide Mr [Bury] [so]wth side. 1955, Ecclesiastical Terriers of Warwickshire Parishes, volume 22, page 36:
6 rodes with hades at both ends. 2 Landes 4 ro. with hades. 1635, Terrier, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary