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单词 flittern
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flitternn.

Forms: Also 1800s dialect flittering.
Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflittern.
a. A strip of the wood of a young oak tree. Obsolete.
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1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 21 These Trees to be bound together..with flitterns or pieces of Oak, or cross Bars.
b. dialect. A young oak.
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1863 J. R. Wise New Forest xvi. 183 The tops of the oaks are termed, when lopped, the ‘flitterings’.
1876 Bill of Sale in W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words (1883) (at cited word) Oak-trees and clean oak flitterns with their tops, lops, and bark.

Compounds

flittern bark n. (see quot. 1858).
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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