cley

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

cley (plural cleys)

1. (obsolete) A claw.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, 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"

• cleystaff

From Middle English cley, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”).

cley (plural cleys)

1. Alternative spelling of clay

• cyle

From Old English clǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gloh₁iyós.

• clei, clay, clai, cleiȝ, cleye, claye

• IPA^(key): /klɛi̯/

cley (uncountable)

1. clay, plaster, or earth like clay.
2. Any earth or terrain; something of little value or import.

• cleyed
• cleyen
• cleyere
• cleyye

• English: clay, cley
• Scots: cley

• “clei (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.

From Old French cloie.

• clei, claye

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛi̯(ə)/

cley (plural cleys)

1. A frame composed of planks crossed together.

• “clei(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.