verb
- past tense of hade: to incline from the vertical (used in geology and mining)
Usage: technical; geology; mining
Examples
- The fault line haded at a steep angle into the earth.
- The miners noted how the vein haded toward the east.
- The geological survey showed that the rock formation haded significantly.
- The shaft haded away from vertical by fifteen degrees.
- Engineers measured how much the ore deposit haded from true vertical.