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ˈflittern
Also 9 dial. flittering.
†a. A strip of the wood of a young oak tree (obs.).
b. dial. A young oak.
1682J. Collins Making Salt 21 These Trees to be bound together..with flitterns or pieces of Oak, or cross Bars. 1863J. R. Wise New Forest xvi. 183 The tops of the oaks are termed, when lopped, the ‘flitterings’. 1876Bill of Sale in Hampsh. Gloss. (1883) s.v., Oak-trees and clean oak flitterns with their tops, lops, and bark.
Comb., as flittern bark (see quot.).
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Flittern Bark, the bark of young oak-trees, as distinguished from that of old oak-trees which is called timber bark and is less valuable to tanners. |