flaughtn.1
/flɔːt/, U.S. /flɔt/, /flɑt/, Scottish English /flɔxt/ Chiefly Scottish.
1.
a. = flake n.2 1a. Obsolete exc. Scottish.
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1483 Cath. Angl. 133 A flaghte of snawe, floccus.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Flaucht A flaucht of snaw.
b. A lock of hair or wool; = flake n.2 1b; spec. (see quot. 1825).
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 50 Roove out her hair in flaughts.
1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 20 He's sent to you what ye lo'ed maist, A flaught o' his yellow hair.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country 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 n.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > flash of
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > flash of
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17372 His cher lik was slaght [read flaght] o fire.
a1724 Vision ii, in Ramsay's Evergreen (1824) I. 212 The Thunder crakt, and Flauchts did rift Frae the blak Vissart of the Lift.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 202 Naething but a flaucht o' fire every now and then, to keep the road by.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Flaught or Fire-flaught applied to the particle of ‘live’ gaseous coal which darts out of a fire.
1887 A. C. Swinburne 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 Scottish.
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1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss. Flaggis, Flaughts, sudden blasts of wind, or of wind and rain.
1896 N.E.D. at Flaught Mod. Sc. The snaw is fleein by in flauchts.
4. A turf; also collective turf. Obsolete exc. dialect. Cf. flag n.2, flake n.2
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > turf > [noun]
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > grassland
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c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 57 I felle vpon þat floury flaȝt.
1483 Cath. Angl. 133 A Flaghte..vbi a turfe.
?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. 10 Meh Heart os leet, os o bit on o Flaight.
?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. Gloss. Flaight, a kind of light Turf.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Flaughts pl. turves for the fire. In Whitby Abbey Rolls, ‘flaghts.’
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flaughtn.2
/flɔːxt/, /flɔːt/, U.S. /flɔt/, /flɑt/, /flɔxt/, /flɑxt/, Scottish English /flɔxt/ Scottish.
1. A spreading out, as of wings for flight; a fluttering or agitated movement; a commotion.
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1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish vii. 75 Nothing was spared but what the servants in the first flaught gathered up in a hurry and ran with.
1822 Sir A. Wylie II. i. 5 Getting up wi a great flaught of his arms.
2. A flock of birds flying together; a flight.
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1818 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Aug. 155 As gin they had been a flaucht o' dows.
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flaughtn.3
Scottish.
In plural. ‘Instruments used in preparing wool’ (Jamieson).
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1875 in Ure's Dict. Arts II. 402.
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flaughtv.
/flɔːxt/, /flɔːt/, U.S. /flɔt/, /flɑt/, /flɔxt/, /flɑxt/, Scottish English /flɔxt/ Scottish and northern dialect.
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‘To card (wool) into thin flakes’ (Jamieson Suppl. 1825).
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flaughtadv.
/flɔːt/, U.S. /flɔt/, /flɑt/, Scottish English /flɔxt/ Scottish.
With outspread wings; with great eagerness (Jamieson). Cf. flaughtbred adv.
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1806 J. Train Sparrow & H. in Poet. Reveries 80 Then flaught on Philip, wi' a rair, She flew, an' pluck't his bosom bare.
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