Felly
adv, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
- 2 rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted wordnet
- 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 […]"
- 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."
Example
More examples"all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]"
Etymology
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”)).
From Middle English felly, felli, fellich, equivalent to fell + -ly.
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