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Bottom glade

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bottom \Bot"tom\, a.
   Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under;
   as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom
   prices.

   {Bottom glade}, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale.
      --Milton.

   {Bottom grass}, grass growing on bottom lands.

   {Bottom land}. See 1st {Bottom}, n., 7.

Glade \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.;
   cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr.
   goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light
   or clear defile.]
   1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared
      space in a forest.

            There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.
                                                  --Pope.

   2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.]

   3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left
      unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.]

   {Bottom glade}. See under {Bottom}.

   {Glade net}, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and
      other birds in forest glades.
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