Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The rim or a section of the rim of a wheel supported by spokes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The circular rim of a wheel, into which the outer ends of the spokes are inserted; in the plural, the curved pieces of wood which, joined together by dowel-pins, form the circumference or circular rim of a cart- or carriage-wheel, each receiving the end of at least one spoke.
- In a fell manner; cruelly; grimly; fiercely; ruthlessly.
- A dialectal variant of fallow.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.
- n. The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted
Etymologies
- From fell + -ly. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English felie, felwe, from Old English felg. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A felly is the outward rim of a wheel: it was formerly written felloe.”
“It was all started, apparently, by a worthless 'felly' from Castleton, who had a great reputation as a medium, and would come over on summer evenings to conduct seances at Frimley and the places near.”
“Its more government spending that we and our kids have to pay for. felly”
“Roeddwn i'n teithio o Gaerdydd ar y tren prynhawn ddoe, ac felly chlywais i ddim mo'r newyddion tan i mi fynd i mewn i dacsi ym Mangor.”
“Mae'r turnout yn isel, ac mae 'na ganfyddiad ymysg rhai etholwyr nad oes arwyddocad i'r etholiad, ac felly yn gyfle i fwrw pleidlais brotest - dwy ffactor sydd wedi ffafrio Plaid Cymru yn draddodiadol.”
“Yn anffodus, roeddwn i'n eistedd mewn car yn teithio i lawr yr A55 tra 'roedd Adam Price yn traddodi ei araith ddydd Sadwrn, felly chefais i ddim mo'r cyfle i'w chlywed yn fyw.”
“Llais Gwynedd, a oedd yn dadlau dros gadw'r nifer ar 15 a gollodd y bleidlais, felly.”
“Pam, felly, bod eich plaid wedi treulio'r 12 mlynedd ddiwethaf yn hudo'r rhacsyn hyll o bapur i'ch cefnogi.”
“Mae 'na bosibilrwydd, felly, y bydd 'na fewnfudo i Gaernarfon tra bo'r carchar yn cael ei godi - a dwi ddim yn gwybod os y gallwn ni wneud unrhyw beth i rwystro hyn.”
“Dwi'n credu, felly, ei bod hi'n bryd i ni droi ein cefn ar y bartneriaeth gyda phlaid fethedig, golledig, sydd wedi ei rheoli gan hunanonldeb giwed fechan o Aelodau Seneddol Prydeinig.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘felly’.
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Interesting words
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Places and spaces
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postern, littoral, dermis, eventide, lacuna, perimeter, aperture, hatchway, periphery, portcullis, selvage, fimbria and 38 more...
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Wheel
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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Adverbia
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Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Gloriaha's Words
immute, wholly, inure, penchant, halcyon, fusty, smidgeon, ostension, array, amalgam, meliorate, bungle and 64 more...
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