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- noun Plural form of
sley . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sley .
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Examples
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Good sley-makers could always command high prices for their sleys.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Wheels, skarnes, sleys, warping-bars, clock-reels, swifts, quilling-wheels, vast bales of yarns and thread -- for he no longer spins his thread and yarn.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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