Definition of "sley" []

• Reed (of a loom) (noun)
• To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed. (verb)

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• "This is done with a wire hook called a sley-hook or reed-hook."
• "The sley was the most delicate part of the mechanism."
• "If they do call her BLAKE it would be so pointless to just add the "sley" part on the end of that name!"