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sley

the reed of a loom; the warp count in woven fabrics
Not to be confused with:
slay – murder; slaughter; assassinate: They planned to slay the King.
sleigh – a light vehicle on runners; a sled: a one-horse open sleigh
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sley

(sleɪ)
n
(Crafts) a weaver's tool for separating threads
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Varios autores han utilizado el indice gonadosomatico (IGS) para establecer el periodo reproductivo en diferentes especies de peces (Lucano-Ramirez et al, 2012; Ruiz-Ramirez et al, 2012; Lucano-Ramirez et al, 2014), asi como en especies de carangidos (Tapia-Garcia, 1997; Viette et al., 1997; Assem et al, 2005; Guirao et al, 2005; Al-Rasady et al, 2012; Sley et al., 2012; Leal et al., 2013; Perea et al., 2013).
(41) Furthermore, the word for a loom's sley (pecten) is also the word used for the plectrum, the lyre's plucking device.
Emma's SlimmingWorld sultant, Pauline Davis e MBE, holds two classes a ek in Cardiff - on Tuess at 6pm at the Scout Hall, ensbank Crescent, Heath d on Thursdays at 6pm in sley Church Hall, Nottingm Street, Canton.
On 11 October 1594, Sly bought a jewel from Philip Henslowe, suggesting that he may have been with the Admiral's Men at the time; at some point he definitely acted for the Admiral's Men, for an inventory of that company's apparel on 13 March 1598 includes 'Perowes sewt, which Wm Sley were'.
consider, I pray you what duetie his children owe to him, & whether vpon any pretext whatsoeuer, it wil not be thought monstrous and vnnaturall to his sons, to rise vp against him, to control him at their appetite, and when they thinke good to sley him, or cut him off, and adopt to themselues any other they please in his roome."(61) In the same way, "for the similitude of the head and the body, it may very well fall out that the head will be forced to garre cut off some rotten member .
When the Jewes dyd willingly receiue and embrace the wholesome counsell of the prophet Esay, GOD by and by did reach his helping hand unto them, and by hys angell, did in one night sley the most worthy and valiant souldiors in Sennacherib's campe.(71)
The Troublesome Raigne by contrast offers no criticism of John at this point, but presents him as a shrewd politician, resorting in an emergency to an unpalatable but necessary tactic, consciously dissembling, unable to hide his contempt even after he first kneels to Pandulph ("Accurst indeed to kneele to such a drudge," he tells himself, "And get no help with thy submission, / Unsheath thy sword, and sley the misprowd Priest, / That thus triumphs ore thee a mighty King: / No John, submit againe, dissemble yet, / For Priests and Women must be flattered," 2.300-5), deciding on submission at last without realising that it involves handing over the crown, recoiling from that humiliation ("What?
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