An archaic or dialectal term for a glen, a narrow valley between hills.
Variant of 'glen' from Gaelic 'gleann' (valley). This form preserves an older spelling pattern common in Scottish English and Irish English texts from earlier centuries.
Glene is like finding a time capsule in language—it's the ancestor of the modern word 'glen,' showing how English borrowed the Gaelic word and then slowly changed its spelling over 500+ years!
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