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▪ I. flacket, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈflækɪt|
Forms: 4–5 flacked, 4–6 flak(k)et(t(e, flag(g)et(te, (5 flagot), 5–7 flackett, (4 flackette), 6 Sc. flacat, 6– flacket.
[a. ONF. *flaquet, flasquet (= Central OF. flaschet, flachet), dim. of flasque (flache, flasche): see flask n. and -et1.]
A flask, bottle, or vessel; now applied in dial. use to a barrel-shaped vessel for holding liquor.
c1320Sir Beues 1298 Bred & flesc out of his male And of his flaketes win & ale. c1350Will. Palerne 1893 Þe flagetes he let falle. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 171 A flakett ful of manis blood. 1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. 490 My master payd fore a flaket of sylver, xx. s. 1539Bible (Great) 1 Sam. xvi. 20 Isai toke an asse laden with breed, and a flacket of wyne. 1673Depos. Cast. York (Surtees) 196 She gott a flackett of ale. 1753Maitland Hist. Edin. i. iii. 37 Two Flackets of eight pounds weight. 1936W. James Gangways & Corridors v. 51 A verse my grandfather used to repeat to me..When I was a boy No bigger than a flacket Half a yard of flannel Would make me a jacket.
▪ II. † ˈflacket, n.2 Obs. rare.
[? f. next vb.]
A bunch (of hair). Cf. flaggat.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 113 Sixe goodly yong ladies..had vpon their heads caps of Goldsmiths worke, hauing great flackets of haire, hanging out on each side.
▪ III. flacket, v. dial. and U.S.|ˈflækɪt|
[freq. of flack v.: cf. ON. flǫkta of same meaning.]
intr. To flap about.
1823Moor Suffolk Words s.v., Womens ribbons or loose geer are said to ‘Flacket about’. It is more expressive than flap..A dressy loose woman would have the former word figuratively applied to her ‘She'll go flacketen about’. 1863A. D. Whitney Faith Gartney v. 45 You go flacketting out, bareheaded, into the streets, after a topping jade like that. 1885J. Spilling Daisy Dimple ix. 72, I see her go past flackerting with him last night. |