felly
1 Americannoun
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fellies
plural
adverb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of felly1
Middle English felien (plural), variant of felwe felloe
Origin of felly2
First recorded in 1250–1300, felly is from the Middle English word felliche; see fell 3, -ly
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I yells to the felly at the wheel.
From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson
The owld felly remimbered all that passed betune Kathleen an' the blessed saint, an' he knewn how hard it was fur Saint Kevin to forgit her, so he thought he'd put him in a fix.
From Irish Wonders by D. R. (David Russell) McAnally
I wonder if any other felly fun her.
From That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The blessed saint was at that time only a young felly, though they don't make 'em any betther than he was.
From Irish Wonders by D. R. (David Russell) McAnally
To prevent this, the hogshead was raised off the ground by a device called a felly.
From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by G. Melvin Herndon
More rarely was it broken by the rumble of wheels, these for the most part being fellies deep in soft, yielding sand.
From The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
Wagon wheels, tireless, their fellies falling apart, lay on the ground, and other ruins of great wagons, dried and disjointed now.
From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
Youse fellies are tryin' to do me out o' my license," said he; "but I'm tellin' yer I was all right last night.
From The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories by Nicholas Carter
Posts, railroad ties, frames for the adobe houses, furniture, fellies of wheels, paving blocks, and charcoal are made of this wonderful tree's root system.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
But aw fancy shoo'll ha' to dee an owd maid, for its nooan her sooarts 'at fellies wants.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by John Hartley
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