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- noun Plural form of
gley .
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Examples
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In Jasper, chernozems are found on steep subalpine grassland slopes, whilst podzols are found in upland areas and gleys in poorly drained areas.
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Soils of the alluvial coastal plains vary as the drainage becomes poorer from gleyed podzolics to humic gleys to acid peats.
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008
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Keep us all! what gleys he gied about him to observe that the folk were looking at him!
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Keep us all! what gleys he gied about him to observe that the folk were looking at him!
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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He gleys doon when I come in, as much as to say, 'C'way wi't, Sandy; I ken fine you have't in your pooch!'"
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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