glies
French edit
Noun edit
glies f
Yola edit
Etymology edit
A fossilised plural of *glie, borrowed from Irish dlaoi (“bundle of thatch”), from Old Irish dlaí, dluí. Compare also swingale (“swindle”).
Noun edit
glies
- straw tied at one end (used for thatching stacks)
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42