Meaning & use
sley
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A comb-like reed used on a loom to space warp threads evenly and beat the weft into place.
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The weaver adjusted the sley before starting a new pattern.
Each strand of warp passed through a separate slot in the sley.
A note on using this word
An old textile term still used by hand-weavers; as a verb, "to sley" means to thread yarn through this reed.
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