different between cley vs gley

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cle, clea, from Old English cl?a (“claw”) (where the oblique forms > English claw).

Noun

cley (plural cleys)

1. (obsolete) A claw.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 74:

     "But that more heavy Birds are otherwise provided for defence, namely either by Spurs that grow on their Legs, or by the strength and sharpness of some single cley in their Foot; as I have observed in the Cassoware or Emeu"

Derived terms

• cleystaff

Etymology 2

From Middle English cley, from Old English cl?? (“clay”).

Noun

cley (plural cleys)

1. Alternative spelling of clay

Anagrams

• Cely, cyle

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cl??, from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gloh?iyós.

Alternative forms

• clei, clay, clai, clei?, cleye, claye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?i?/

Noun

cley (uncountable)

2. clay, plaster, or earth like clay.
3. Any earth or terrain; something of little value or import.

Related terms

• cleyed
• cleyen
• cleyere
• cleyye

Descendants

• English: clay, cley
• Scots: cley

References

• “clei, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.

Etymology 2

From Old French cloie.

Alternative forms

• clei, claye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?i?(?)/

Noun

cley (plural cleys)

2. A frame composed of planks crossed together.

References

• “clei(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?/

Etymology 1

1920s, from Ukrainian ???? (glej, “clayey soil”), from Proto-Slavic *gl?j?, from *gli-jo-. Cognate of clay.

Alternative forms

• glei

Noun

gley (plural gleys)

1. (soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.

Synonyms

• gleysol, gleisol

Derived terms

Verb

gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleying, simple past and past participle gleyed)

1. (soil science) To be converted into this kind of soil.

References

• Mel?ny?uk O. S., editor (1982–2012) , “????”, in Etymolohi?nyj slovnyk ukrajins?koji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyjiv: Naukova Dumka

Etymology 2

Verb

gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleying, simple past and past participle gleyed)

1. (Scotland) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Related terms

• agley

Anagrams

• gyle

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?i/

Verb

gley (third-person singular present gleys, present participle gleyin, past gleyed, past participle gleyed)

1. to squint