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felly

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈfɛli/
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/ˈfɛli/ · /ˈfɛl.li/

Definition of felly

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
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noun

  1. The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
  2. Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.
    “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.”

adv

  1. (archaic)Fiercely, harshly.
    “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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Etymology

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”)).

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