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Clayes vs Clayey - What's the difference?

clayes | clayey |

As a noun clayes

is wattles or hurdles made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.

As an adjective clayey is

resembling or containing clay.

clayes

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (obsolete) wattles or hurdles made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments
    • (Webster 1913)

    clayey

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling or containing clay.
  • * 1812 , Antonio de Alcedo and George Alexander Thompson (translator), The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies , vol. 2, page 13, “Demerara” (J. Carpenter):
    • The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea : thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar-canes.
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if, darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 85:
    • Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate, and thus chemically utterly different in composition from the clayey rocks below and the hard, pebbly ones above.

    Synonyms

    * clayish

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