sleight

[ slahyt ]
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noun
  1. skill; dexterity.

  2. an artifice; stratagem.

  1. cunning; craft.

Origin of sleight

1
1225–75; Middle English; early Middle English slēgth<Old Norse slǣgth.See sly, -th1

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sleight

/ (slaɪt) /


nounarchaic
  1. skill; dexterity: See also sleight of hand

  2. a trick or stratagem

  1. cunning; trickery

Origin of sleight

1
C14: from Old Norse slægth, from slægr sly

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