felly meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

felly

noun

/ˈfɛli/

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”)).

The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.

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 […]c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 426-430:
The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

felly

adv

/ˈfɛl.li/

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

Archaic Fiercely, harshly.

Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi: