(geology, mining) To slope or incline from the vertical.
noun
(geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
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)
noun
(British, dialects, 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.
6 rodes with hades at both ends. 2 Landes 4 ro. with hades.
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.