Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sticky, bluish-gray subsurface layer of clay found in some waterlogged soils.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shine; glance.
- To look obliquely or askance; squint.
- noun A squint or sidelong glance.
- Awry; asquint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Asquint; askance; obliquely.
- intransitive verb Scot. To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun soil science A type of
hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In coves and depressions, strongly-acid gley soils with indurated horizons occur.
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On steep ridges, soils derived from basalt or diabase are often unstable; they tend to creep downslope, creating shallow, ledgy soils on upper slopes, and deeper, wetter gley soils on lower slopes near the bases of ridges.
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But as Robert Burns would write: 'The best laid schemes of mice and men/Gang aft a-gley'.
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The soil is yellow brown to gley soil, and to the east it is sandy loam and calcareous.
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There are times when "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley".
Archive 2008-03-23 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Despite all human efforts, our best-laid plans indeed Gang aft a-gley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain.
"Terrorism is a cancer in Pakistan, we are determined, God willing, we will rid the country of this cancer." Ann Althouse 2008
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Other features are eroded accumulations of volcanic ash, foothills, piedmont plains and coastal lowlands, Below the ash-covered slopes, soils are tundra gley, forest-tundra and brown forest types, podzols and peat.
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There are times when "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley".
A lesson in vigilant civics de Brantigny........................ 2008
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In other exciting gang aft a-gley news, my hotlines phone system is down.
The Happiest of Hours vuboq 2006
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My boss let us leave at 4PM today because the phones were still gang aft a-gley-ed.
VUBOQ Queries the Nation vuboq 2006
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