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▪ I. † flet1 Obs.
Forms: 1, 3–6, 8 flet, 3 south. vlet, 4–5 flett(e, (6 fleete, fleit, flelt), 7–8 flett.
[OE. flęt(t = OFris. flet, OS. flet, fletti, OHG. flazi, flezi (MHG. vletze, Ger. dial. fletz), ON. flet str. neut.:—OTeut. *flatjom, f. *flato- flat a.]
1. The floor or ground under one's feet.
Beowulf 1568 (Gr.) Heo on flet ᵹecrong. a1000Canons Powerful Men ii. (Thorpe, 1840) 414 & ne cume on bedde ac licᵹe on flette. a1300E.E. Psalter cxviii. [cxix] 25 Clived mi saule to þi flet. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 568 A tule tapit tyȝt ouer þe flet. a1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 473 Thi berne also be playne, and harde the flette. c1450Myrc 273 Knelynge doun upon the flette.
b. ? A place, spot, field (of battle).
c1205Lay. 26023 Þat he com to þan ulette þer þe feond lai and slæpte. c1300K. Alis. 2378 They broughte heom out of the flette.
2. A dwelling, house, ‘hall’.
Beowulf 1025 (Gr.) Beowulf ᵹeþah ful on flette. a1000Laws Hlothhære & Eadric xi. (Thorpe 1840) 14 Ȝif man mannan an oðres flette man-swara hateð..scilling aᵹelde þam þe þæt flet aᵹe. a1300Siriz 273 So ich evere brouke hous other flet. c1325Poem Times Edw. II 309 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 337 An hep of girles sittende aboute the flet. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 26, I shal not in thi det Flyt of this flett!
b. Sc. The inner part of a house.
a1400Burgh Laws xxiii. (Sc. Stat. I.) Þe inner halfe of þe hous þat is callyt þe flett. c1450Holland Howlat lxiv. 830 The fulis fonde in the flet And mony mowis at mete On the flure maid. 1508Dunbar Flyting 242 Rank beggar, ostir dregar, foule fleggar, in the flet. 1598Ferguson Sc. Prov. 4 A fair fire makes a room flet. 1768Ross Helenore ii. 588 That seven years have sitten i' the flet.
3. fire and flet (corruptly fleet): ‘fire and house-room’; an expression often occurring in wills, etc.
Bp. Kennett (a 1728) quotes in MS. Lansd. 1033 fol. 132 an ‘old northern song over a dead corps’, containing the lines ‘Fire and fleet and candle light, And Xt receive thy sawle’. In Sir W. Scott's Minstrelsy of Scot. Border (1802) 232 the words appear as ‘Fire and sleet’, and the editor suggests that sleet ‘seems to be corrupted from selt, or salt, a quantity of which is frequently placed on the breast of a corpse’!
1533Trubb in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 129 To fynd the said wife..mete and drink, fyer and flelt. 1539Will of R. Morleyn (Somerset Ho.) My wife to have..fyre & fleete in my haule & kechin. c1570Durham Depos. (Surtees) 207, I trobled..this house with a bedd roome and fier and fleit.
▪ II. flet2 Sc.|flɛt|
Also fleat.
[app. repr. ON. flétta plait, f. flétta = Ger. flechten to plait.]
A mat of plaited straw placed on a pack-horse's back to prevent chafing or galling.
1794W. Sutherland in Statist. Acc. Scotl. X. 23 Straw creels..fixed over straw flets, on the horses backs, with a clubber and straw ropes. 1812Capt. Henderson Agric. Surv. Sutherland v. §5. 60 The horse being equipped with a fleat and clubbar on his back.
▪ III. flet
see fleet v.1 and v.2 |