gley

American  

[glay] / gleɪ /

noun

Geology.

1. a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.

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gley British  

/ ɡleɪ /

noun

1. a bluish-grey compact sticky soil occurring in certain humid regions

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Etymology

Origin of gley

1925–30; < Ukrainian gleĭ clayey earth; cognate with Byelorussian, Russian dialect gleĭ, Serbo-Croatian glêj; akin to clay

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Example Sentences

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gley

And here—though maybe it was just my thought—the body stroked his chin, and gave me a kind of half gley, p. 120as much as saying, “take that to ye, neighbour.”

From The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by David Macbeth Moir

"Weel," he added, "ye maunna gley asklent at the mere whan she comes hame some saipy-like!"

From Salted with Fire by George MacDonald

"It may be so, my good Sir Joseph, it may be so, and yet, even when I am most hopeful of success, my schemes go a gley."

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

And here—though maybe it was just my thought—the body stroked his chin, and gave me a kind of half gley, as much as saying, “take that to ye, neighbour.”

From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Charles Martin Hardie

Princie, as he ca'd him, ga'e a gley roond wi' the white o' his e'e that garred Sandy keep a gude yaird clear o' him.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

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