cley – English noun declension

English noun forms of cley

Noun: cley

Singular	cley
Plural	cleys

Sample Sentences

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 [1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 74]

Nouns inflected like cley

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Middle English cle, clea, from Old English clēa (“claw”) (where the oblique forms > English claw). See: Middle English Nouns 'cle', Old English Nouns 'clēa', English Nouns 'claw'.