different between sley vs cley

English

Etymology

From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.

Noun

sley (plural sleys)

1. reed (of a loom)
2. A guideway in a knitting machine.

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3. (weaving) The number of ends per inch in the cloth, provided each dent in the reed in which it was made contained an equal number of ends.

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Verb

sley (third-person singular simple present sleys, present participle sleying, simple past and past participle sleyed)

1. (transitive, weaving) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed.

Related terms

• sleave
• sleid

Anagrams

• Slye, leys, lyes, lyse, sely, syle

Middle English

Adjective

sley

1. Alternative form of sly

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.