Definition of "felly"

felly¹

/ˈfɛli/

noun
plural fellies
1. The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
2. Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.
  Quotations
  all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii], lines 426-430
  The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.
  1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]

felly²

/ˈfɛl.li/

adverb
comparative more felly, superlative most felly
1. (now rare) Fiercely, harshly.
  Quotations
  Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi