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English
Etymology
From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.
Pronunciation
Noun
sley (plural sleys)
- Reed (of a loom).
- A guideway in a knitting machine.
- (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
- Synonym: (sometimes) sett
1903 December, “The Adjustment of Cotton Preparing and Spinning Machinery”, in Textile World, volume 26, number 3, page 125:An extreme draft is not desirable in the spinning of filling yarns either on a frame or mule, although yarn from the latter machines is usually spun from coarser roving than would be possible on a filling frame, and it would seem preferable to spin same from roving with a medium draft, or, from double roving, and particularly so for fine sheetings, cambrics and other styles of cloth, that require finer filling than the warp and which have a higher count or pick, than sley.
Verb
sley (third-person singular simple present sleys, present participle sleying, simple past and past participle sleyed)
- (transitive, weaving) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed.
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References
- “sley”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Sley”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. , volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton , →OCLC.
- Phyllis G. Tortora, Ingrid Johnson (2013) The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 8th edition, Bloomsbury Academic
Anagrams
Middle English
Adjective
sley
- Alternative form of sly