slaie

Noun

sley (plural sleys)

1. Reed (of a loom).
2. A guideway in a knitting machine.
3. The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
   • 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...1903 December, “The Adjustment of Cotton Preparing and Spinning Machinery”, in Textile World, volume 26, number 3, page 125

   Synonyms:

   sett

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