sleid

English

Etymology

See sley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sleɪd/
• Homophones: slayed, slade

Verb

sleid (third-person singular simple present sleids, present participle sleiding, simple past and past participle sleided)

1. (archaic) To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     sleided silk

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sleid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Diels, delis, Sidle, isled, sidle, leids, Seidl, siled, idles, Lides, slide