Dictionaries › English

sley

Pronunciation: /sleɪ/

The English word “sley” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Reed (of a loom).
  2. A guideway in a knitting machine.
  3. The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.

verb

  1. To separate or part warp threads and arrange them in a reed.

Etymology

From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “sley” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.