Usually means: Spacing of threads in weaving.
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  3. sley: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Sley: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. sley: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Sley: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sley: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. sley: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sley: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (sley)

noun:  Reed (of a loom).
noun:  A guideway in a knitting machine.
noun:  (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
verb:  (transitive, weaving) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed.

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