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sleying

sleying is the present participle and gerund of sley.

Meaning of sley

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To separate or part warp threads and arrange them in a reed.
    • Centering for a weaving width of 15 7/15", sley 2 ends per dent in a 15-dent reed, or centering for a width of 15 5/10", sley 3 ends per dent in a 10-dent reed.2026, Shelby Moravec, “Flight of the Dragonflies Scarf”, in Handwoven, volume XLVII, number 1, page 28
    Synonyms:
    sleid

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Questions about sleying

What is sleying the present participle and gerund of?
Sleying is the present participle and gerund of sley.

Words near sleying in the dictionary

  1. slewrate
  2. slews
  3. SLEX
  4. sley
  5. sleyed
  6. sleying
  7. sleys
  8. Slezak
  9. Slezaks
  10. SLF
  11. SLF4J

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