/slad/
UrsprungTwo main etymologies are 1) end, leftovers, same as slatt, 2) from sladda (“to slide, to skid”), related to släde (“a sled, a sleigh”). However, some meanings are a mix of the two: Komma på sladden, sladdbarn, meaning a trailing bonus chance, can refer either to leftovers or to the trailing sled. Compare Low German sladde ("cloth").
Rope's end, the sailor's term, has been used since 1736, coming Low German.
Clod crusher, the farming tool, has been used since 1695, also written slädd, from the verb sladda.
- common-gendera cord, a cable, (UK) a lead ((insulated, relatively thin) wire between a power outlet and a device or machine)
“stoppa i sladden i vägguttaget” — plug the cord into the wall outlet
“Apparaten har en lång sladd” — The device has a long cord
- common-gendera skid, a sideways or oblique slide, (when deliberate) a drift (of a vehicle or the like)
“en sladd ner i diket” — a skid into the ditch
- common-gender, uncommonthe end of a line
“[archaic language] Turbanknop eller ormhufvud [ormhuvud] nyttjas på sladden af ett tåg för att stoppa det vid ett hål, så att sladden ej kryper ut” — Turban knot or snakehead is used at the end of a rope to stop it at a hole, so the end doesn't sneak out
- common-gender, figuratively, uncommona trailing part; a trailing bonus chance, an extra
“Bland innehållet märks för övrigt ett porträttgalleri över Götaverkens gudmödrar, där även en fadder fått komma med på sladden” — Among the content is also [noticed] a portrait gallery of the godmothers of Götaverken [a ship wharf], where a godfather has also been included as a bonus
- common-gender, uncommonthe end of a filmstrip
- common-gendera clodcrusher (farming tool)
- common-gendera driveway groomer (road construction tool for maintaining gravel roads)
Formersladd(indefinite, nominative, singular) · sladds(genitive, indefinite, singular) · sladden(definite, nominative, singular) · sladdens(definite, genitive, singular) · sladdar(indefinite, nominative, plural) · sladdars(genitive, indefinite, plural) · sladdarna(definite, nominative, plural) · sladdarnas(definite, genitive, plural)