sleid

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/sleɪd/

verb

To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person sleids · participle present sleiding · participle past sleided · past sleided

  1. archaicTo sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley.

    sleided silk

    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
sley

Origin

See sley.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

slayedslade

Anagrams

slideSeidlsidleisled
Cite this entry
APA

sleid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleid

MLA

“sleid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleid. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sleid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleid.

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