felly

fel·ly
F4E1L1L1Y4
/ˈfɛli//ˈfɛl.li/

noun

The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.

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felloe
OriginMiddle English fely ← Old English felg ← Proto-Germanic *felgō →
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Meanings

felly1

nounfelly (plural fellies)

plural fellies · alternative felloe · alternative dialectal fellick · alternative dialectal felk

  1. The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.

    Synonyms: felloe

  2. Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.

    The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
    1 more example

    all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]

    c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 426-430

    Synonyms: felloe

felly2

adverbfelly (comparative more felly, superlative most felly)

comparative more felly · superlative most felly

  1. archaicFiercely, harshly.

    Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.

Similar
felloe

nounAny of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.

Similar
felloe

More synonyms by meaning

nounrim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted

Similar
felloe
Broader
rim
Also see
felloe

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

felly · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pl̥ǵʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*felgō
  3. Old Englishfelg
  4. Middle Englishfely
  5. Englishfelly

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”)).

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felly · adverb

  1. Middle Englishfelly
  2. Englishfelly

From Middle English felly, felli, fellich, equivalent to fell + -ly.

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APA

felly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/felly

MLA

“felly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/felly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “felly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/felly.

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