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  • noun Plural form of sley.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sley.

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Examples

  • Good sley-makers could always command high prices for their sleys.

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • 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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