Definitions
Etymologies
- Middle English felwe, from Old English felg 'harrow, felloe'. Doublet of and more at felly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You do not disrespect and hate felloe democrats ... and figure that in the end it won't matter - they will vote DEM anyway.”
“Actually, it is YOU and your ATHEIST and WRONG CHRISTIAN felloe travelers who are dysfunctional!”
“But the Señorita must be waked at once and take the road with Dicco, moving towards the best, or weakest, bars of the cage; for, though the net was spread, the great spider himself was not yet amove down its spokes and round the felloe.”
“Never, over nave or felloe, did thy axe (_q. _ hammer?) strike such a stroke.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
“It was a smoking furnace down there, and soon the felloe and spokes would be injured by the flames and heat.”
“A fine old felloe," said I-- "full of fun, well informed, convivial, age about sixty, well preserved, splendid face --”
“It will be an evil day for the world when the nave shall leave its place and contend for that of the felloe.”
“Psychologist Avenue, led us directly to a semicircular civic center at the water front, from which the principal avenues radiated toward the outer wall like the spokes of a wheel from the hub toward the felloe.”
“Then the wheelwright lays his axe to its roots that he may fashion a felloe for the wheel of some goodly chariot, and it lies seasoning by the waterside.”
“He had knocked one felloe off the rim and was hitting at the spokes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘felloe’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Poetrie: The Deacon's Masterpiece, or...
By Oliver Wendell Holmes (sr.?). Thanks to slumry for pointing out the link (a long time ago) to this.
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a log...dunce, perplexed, huddup, ewe-necked, rat-tailed, encore, back-crossbar, whippletree, masterpiece, dasher, bison-skin, linchpin and 19 more...
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