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felly

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɛli/Part of speech nounSorted efllyStarts with FEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted

Word origin

From Middle English fely, felow, felowe, felwe, felȝe, from Old English felg, from Proto-Germanic *felgō (compare Saterland Frisian feelge, Dutch velg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥ǵʰ- (compare Polish płoza (“sliding iron”), Old Church Slavonic пльзати (plĭzati, “to creep, crawl”)).

Used in a sentence

  • all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]
  • The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.
  • Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.

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