sley
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sley
- /sleɪ/
Where it comes from
From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.
noun 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 doub
verb sleys · sleying · sleyed · slay
- To separate or part warp threads and arrange them in a reed. Centering for a weaving width of 15 7/15", sley 2 ends per dent in a 15-dent reed, or centering for a width of 15 5/10", sley 3 ends per dent in a 10-dent reed.
