sley

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Reed (of a loom).
  2. A guideway in a knitting machine.
  3. The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
    — An extreme draft is not desirable in the spinning of filling yarns either on a frame or mule, although yarn from the latter machines is usually spun from coarser roving than would be possible on a filling frame, and it would seem preferable to spin same from roving with a medium draft, or, from double roving, and particularly so for fine sheetings, cambrics and other styles of cloth, that require finer filling than the warp and which have a higher count or pick, than sley.
动词 v.
  1. To separate or part warp threads and arrange them in a reed. transitive
    — Centering for a weaving width of 15 7/15", sley 2 ends per dent in a 15-dent reed, or centering for a width of 15 5/10", sley 3 ends per dent in a 10-dent reed.

词形变化

sleys plural sleys present,singular,third-person sleying participle,present sleyed participle,past sleyed past slay alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.
词源 2
From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.
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