Associations to the word «Gley»

Wiktionary

GLEY, noun. (soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
GLEY, verb. (soil science) To be converted into this kind of soil.
GLEY, verb. (Scotland) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats