† chafletn.
Obsolete. rare.
? A scaffold, platform, elevated stage. (Cf. chaselette n.)
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1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur (1817) II. 436 Kynge Arthur dremed a wonderful dreme, & that was this, that hym semed he satte vpon a chaflet in a chayer, and the chayer was fast to a whele.
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n.1470- to pull one's head out of one's arse
- to pull one's head out of one's ass
- to pull one's plonker
- to pull one's pud
- to pull one's pudding
- to pull one's punches
- to pull one's rank
- to pull one's socks up
- to pull one's status
- to pull one's stripes
- to pull one's top
- to pull one's weight
- to pull one's wire
- to pull one'the etc
- to pull one'the pud
- to pull one'the pudding
- to pull one'the wire
- to pull oneself by one's bootstraps
- to pull oneself by one's own bootstraps
- to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
- to pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
- to pull out
- to pull out all the stops
- to pull out of one's ass
- to pull out of the bag