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blay
English
Etymology
From Middle English *blaye, *bleye, from Old English bl??e (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Germanic *blaigij? (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leyk- (“to shine”). Cognate with German Bleie, Bleihe (“blay”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
blay (plural blays)
- The bleak (fish).
Translations
Anagrams
- -ably, Alby, ably
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Etymology
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Verb
blay (present participle blayeen)
- to blow
- to shout
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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clay
English
Etymology
From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English cl?? (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).
Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek ???? (glía), Latin gl?ten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Ukrainian ???? (glej, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kl?, IPA(key): /kle?/, [kl?e?]
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)
- A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
- An earth material with ductile qualities.
- (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
- (biblical) The material of the human body.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Job 10:8-9:
- Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Isaiah 64:8:
- But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Job 10:8-9:
- (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
- (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
- We went shooting clays at the weekend.
- (informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
- Danzig is rightfully German clay.
Antonyms
- (material of the human body): soul, spirit
Hyponyms
- kaolin, kaoline
- ball clay
- fire clay
- potter's clay
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- alluvium
Verb
clay (third-person singular simple present clays, present participle claying, simple past and past participle clayed)
- (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
- (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
- They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
- 1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
References
- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter volume 11, Number 1.[2] (etymology)
- “clay” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
- Clay, New Webster Dictionary of English Language, 1980 edition.
Anagrams
- Lacy, acyl, lacy
Middle English
Noun
clay
- Alternative form of cley (“clay”)
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