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Tel vs Tey - What's the difference?

tel | tey |

As nouns the difference between tel and tey

is that tel is telegraph while tey is an Old English measure of length for rope, perhaps equivalent to the fathom.

tel

English

Etymology 1

(en)

Noun

(en noun)
  • telegraph
  • telegram
  • telephone

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hill or mound. (Used especially for land features in the Middle East and North Africa)

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    tey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an Old English measure of length for rope, perhaps equivalent to the fathom.
  • * 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 171:
    • The tey or toise, the modern fathom, is employed as a measure of rope.

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