Associations to the word «Sley»

Wiktionary

SLEY, noun. Reed (of a loom)
SLEY, noun. A guideway in a knitting machine.
SLEY, noun. (weaving) The number of ends per inch in the cloth, provided each dent in the reed in which it was made contained an equal number of ends.
SLEY, verb. (transitive) (weaving) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope