felly
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɛli/
felly (plural fellies)
- The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
- 1602, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:
- all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.
- 1602, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:
- IPA: /ˈfɛlli/, /ˈfɛli/
felly
- (now rare) Fiercely, harshly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
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