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sleid

/sleɪd/

sleid verb: to sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley.

Verb

sleid (third-person singular simple present sleids, present participle sleiding, simple past and past participle sleided)

  1. (archaic) To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley.
    • sleided silk1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Forms of sleid

third-person singular presentsleids
present participlesleiding
past participlesleided
pastsleided

Origin of sleid

See sley.

Questions about sleid

What does sleid mean?
Sleid means to sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley.
What part of speech is sleid?
Sleid is a verb.
How do you pronounce sleid?
Sleid is pronounced /sleɪd/.
What is the past tense of sleid?
The past tense of sleid is sleided.

Words near sleid in the dictionary

  1. sleeving
  2. sleevings
  3. sleezier
  4. sleeziest
  5. sleezy
  6. sleid
  7. sleided
  8. sleiding
  9. sleids
  10. sleigh
  11. sleigh bed

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