hade

Meanings

Noun

• State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
• A slope; the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
• A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.

Verb

• To slope or incline from the vertical.

Origin

• From Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāy-. Cognate with Old Saxon hēd, Old High German heit, Old Norse heiðr (whence Danish hæder, Swedish heder), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃. Same as -hood.
• Origin uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.
• Probably a dialectal or variant form of head.