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▪ I. flaught, n.1 Chiefly Sc.
(flɔːt, Sc. flaxt)
Also 4–5 flaght(e, 8–9 flaucht.
[ME. flaȝt, prob. repr. either OE. *fleaht or ON. *flaht-r (Icel. fláttr, used only in the sense ‘act of flaying’: see Fritzner s.v.); the OTeut. type would be *flahtu-z, f. either of the parallel roots flah-, flak- (Aryan -plak, plag-), whence flake n.2 and flaw n.2, both which have senses identical with those of this word.]
1. = flake n.2 1 a. Obs. exc. Sc.
1483Cath. Angl. 133 A flaghte of snawe, floccus. 1808Jamieson s.v. Flaucht, A flaucht of snaw.
b. A lock of hair or wool; = flake n.2 1 b; spec. (see quot. 1825).
1786Ross Helenore (1789) 55 In flaughts roove out her hair. 1806R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 20 He's sent to you what ye lo'ed maist, A flaught o' his yellow hair. 1825Brockett Gloss. N.C. Words, Flaut, Flought a roll of wool carded ready for spinning.
2. A flash; a flash of lightning; a ‘tongue’ of flame; = flake n.2 2. Cf. fire-flaught.
a1300Cursor M. 17372 (Cott.) His cher lik was flaght [pr. slaght] o fire. a1724Vision ii. in Ramsay's Evergreen (1824) I. 212 The Thunder crakt, and Flauchts did rift Frae the blak Vissart of the Lift. 1820Blackw. Mag. Nov. 202 Naething but a flaucht o' fire every now and then, to keep the road by. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. Flaught or Fire-flaught applied to the particle of ‘live’ gaseous coal which darts out of a fire. 1887Swinburne Locrine iv. i. 159 When your eyes Wax red and dark, with flaughts of fire between, I fear them.
3. A sudden blast of wind (and rain); = flake n.5 b, flaw n.2 Sc.
1802Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss., Flaggis, Flaughts, sudden blasts of wind, or of wind and rain. Mod. Sc. The snaw is fleein by in flauchts.
4. A turf; also collect. turf. Obs. exc. dial. Cf. flag n.2, flake n.2
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 57, I felle vpon þat floury flaȝt. 1483Cath. Angl. 133 A Flaghte..vbi a turfe. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 47 Meh Heart as leet as o bit on o Flaight. Ibid. Gloss., Flaight, a light turf. 1876Whitby Gloss., Flaughts pl. turves for the fire. In Whitby Abbey Rolls, ‘flaghts.’
▪ II. flaught, n.2 Sc.|flaxt|
[var. of flocht.]
1. A spreading out, as of wings for flight; a fluttering or agitated movement; a commotion.
1821Galt Annals of Parish vii. 75 Nothing was spared but what the servants in the first flaught gathered up in a hurry and ran with. 1822Sir A. Wylie II. i. 5 Getting up wi a great flaught of his arms.
2. A flock of birds flying together; a flight.
1818Edin. Mag. Aug. 155 As gin they had been a flaucht o' dows.
▪ III. flaught, n.3 Sc.
[f. the vb.]
In pl. ‘Instruments used in preparing wool.’ (Jam.)
1875in Ure's Dict. Arts II. 402.
▪ IV. flaught, v. Sc. and north. dial.|flaxt|
Also flauch(t.
[f. flaught n.1 (sense 1 b).]
‘To card (wool) into thin flakes’ (Jam. Suppl. 1825).
▪ V. flaught, adv. Sc.
(flɔːt, Sc. flaxt)
[Cf. flaught n.2]
With outspread wings; with great eagerness (Jam.). Cf. flaughtbred.
1806Train Sparrow & H., Poet. Reveries 80 Then flaught on Philip, wi' a rair, She flew, an' pluck't his bosom bare. |