Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
felly . - noun An obsolete spelling of
fellow .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
felly .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the outer rim of a
wheel , supported by thespokes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted
Etymologies
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Examples
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You do not disrespect and hate felloe democrats ... and figure that in the end it won't matter - they will vote DEM anyway.
Clinton's new job: Persuading diehard fans to back Obama 2008
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Actually, it is YOU and your ATHEIST and WRONG CHRISTIAN felloe travelers who are dysfunctional!
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Never, over nave or felloe, did thy axe (_q. _ hammer?) strike such a stroke.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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It was a smoking furnace down there, and soon the felloe and spokes would be injured by the flames and heat.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr
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"A fine old felloe," said I-- "full of fun, well informed, convivial, age about sixty, well preserved, splendid face --"
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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But the Señorita must be waked at once and take the road with Dicco, moving towards the best, or weakest, bars of the cage; for, though the net was spread, the great spider himself was not yet amove down its spokes and round the felloe.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming
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It will be an evil day for the world when the nave shall leave its place and contend for that of the felloe.
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Psychologist Avenue, led us directly to a semicircular civic center at the water front, from which the principal avenues radiated toward the outer wall like the spokes of a wheel from the hub toward the felloe.
Lost on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1935
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Then the wheelwright lays his axe to its roots that he may fashion a felloe for the wheel of some goodly chariot, and it lies seasoning by the waterside.
The Iliad of Homer 1898
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He had knocked one felloe off the rim and was hitting at the spokes.
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