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Vinony

felly

adverb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɛl.li/ / /ˈfɛli/

adv

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

  1. Fiercely, harshly.

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

noun

Etymology: 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”)).

  1. The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
  2. Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.

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

    “The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.”