| 单词 | fire and flet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire and flet (corruptly fleet) 3. fire and flet (corruptly fleet): ‘fire and house-room’; an expression often occurring in wills, etc.Bishop Kennett (a1728) quotes in MS. Lansd. 1033 f. 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’! ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun] > house-room > and fire fire and flet (corruptly fleet)1533 1533 Trubb in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 129 To fynd the said wife..mete and drink, fyer and flelt. 1539 Will of Richard Morleyn (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/27) f. 219 My wife to have..fyre & fleete in my haule & kechin. c1570 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 207 I trobled..this house with a bedd roome and fier and fleit. < as lemmas |
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