"silflay" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, The Trials of Worzel Gummidge, Puffin, page 171",
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          "text": "If I’m a rabbit I jump at sounds. I live in a burrow of motors. I want to jump, but cannot. The ceiling is too low in this burrow. Only rarely can I go out to silflay. I am aware of the coming and going of the sun because of a distant glow. I can barely perceive the white incandescence.",
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