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▪ I. flew|fluː|
[Of unknown origin.]
Usually pl. The large chaps of a deep-mouthed hound (e.g. the bloodhound).
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 369 They..open his flew and jawes with a mannes hande. 1611Markham Countr. Content. i. i. (1668) 5 The flews of his [i.e. a hound's] upper lips almost two inches lower than his neither chaps. 1766–82in Bailey. 1818Hogg Hunt of Eildon v. in Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 322 Their crukit tungis were dry for blood, An' the red lowe firled at their flews. 1883G. Stables Friend Dog vii. 60 Flews, the hanging lips, as in the Blood-hound.
▪ II. flew
var. of flue.
▪ III. flew
pa. tense of fly v. and (obs.) of flay v. |