sleys
sleys is the plural of sley.
sleys is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sley.
Meaning of sley
Noun
sley (plural sleys)
- Reed (of a loom).
- A guideway in a knitting machine.
- 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
Words that rhyme with sleys
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- amaze
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- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
Questions about sleys
- What is sleys the plural of?
- Sleys is the plural of sley.
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