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Felly

//ˈfɛli// adv, noun

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Fiercely, harshly. archaic

    "Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste."

Noun
  1. 1
    The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
  2. 2
    rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.

    "all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English fely, felow, felowe, felwe, felȝe, from Old English felg, from Proto-Germanic *felgō (compare Saterland Frisian feelge, Dutch velg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥ǵʰ- (compare Polish płoza (“sliding iron”), Old Church Slavonic пльзати (plĭzati, “to creep, crawl”)).

Etymology 2

From Middle English felly, felli, fellich, equivalent to fell + -ly.

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