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Cley vs Gley - What's the difference?

cley | gley |

As nouns the difference between cley and gley

is that cley is a claw while gley is a type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.

As a verb gley is

to be converted into this kind of soil.

cley

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A claw.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 74:
  • *:"But that more heavy'' Birds are otherwise provided for defence, namely either by ''Spurs'' that grow on their Legs, or by the strength and sharpness of some single cley in their Foot; as I have observed in the ''Cassoware'' or ''Emeu "

    • Derived terms

    * cleystaff

    gley

    English

    (Gley soil)

    Etymology 1

    1920s, from (etyl) . Cognate of clay.

    Alternative forms

    * glei

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
    • Synonyms
    * gleysol, gleisol
    Derived terms
    * gleyed, gleied * gleying, gleiing * gleization * gleysolic

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (soil science) To be converted into this kind of soil.

    • References

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    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
    • (Jamieson)
    Related terms
    * agley ----