flueflewn.¹

Brit.

/fluː/, U.S.

/flu/

Forms: Also Middle English flowe, Middle English flw(e, 1500s flewe.

Etymology: compare Middle Dutch vluwe fishing-net (Dutch flouw snipe-net), French flu fine nappe d'un tramail (Boiste 1840: not in Littré), also flucq some kind of fishing apparatus (16th cent. in Godefroy); the mutual relation of the words is unknown.

A kind of fishing-net: (a) a dragnet; (b) a fixed net; also flue-net.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets

Peter netc1280

flue1388

wade1388

stalker1389

shove-net1418

trod-net1523

butt1533

web1533

fagnet1558

seur1558

trimnet1558

trollnet1558

pot-net1584

treat net1584

weir-net1585

hagan1630

henbilt1630

rugnet1630

basket-net1652

landing-net1653

stream-net1662

wolf1725

ram's horn1792

gill net1795

wolf-net1819

trap-net1856

forewheel1861

stow-net1871

lave net1875

kettle-bail1881

beating-net1883

keeve-net1883

net basin1883

wing-neta1884

trap-seine1891

lead-net1910

ghost net1959

1388–9 Accts. Abingdon Abbey (Camden) 57 J rete vocatum wade et j flowe.

1391 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 157 Willo Broune servienti meo..j flew, cum warrap et flot.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 168/1 Flwe, nette..tragum.

1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 509 My master paid to Chelone fore knyttynge of a flew, xvj.d.

1569 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 329 Nor laye any flewe or other nett in any of the same waters.

1611 Bible (King James) Hab. i. 15 They..gather them in their dragge [margin. flue-net] .

1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 66 No Fisherman..shall..use or exercise any Flue, Trammel..or hooped Net whatsoever.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 5 Fishing with trammels, or flews in March or April.

1851 H. Newland Erne 75 It is generally caught by a flue, set between the openings of the weeds.

1882 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck Three in Norway vi. 44 Seven boats..were out with a huge flue net.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

fluen.²

Brit.

/fluː/, U.S.

/flu/

Forms: Also 1500s floow, 1600s–1800s flew.

Etymology: of unknown origin; compare modern Flemish vluwe of same meaning (Franck s.v. fluweel) which, like the Dutch fluweel and medieval Latin fluetum velvet, is believed to be derived < French velu hairy, downy. But see fluff n.¹

†1. A woolly or downy substance; down, nap. Also plural bits of down. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > softness and downiness or fluffiness > downy or fluffy substance

down1542

flue1589

lanugo1677

fluff1790

oose1822

1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 69 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Towels with nap shorne off (The floow or roughnes shorne away for feare to hurt his handes).

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 271 A bed filled with flew or wooll of Hares.

1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 100 They will be as big as Lice with Rags or Flews about them.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Flue, The soft down from feathers, and the skins from rabbits, etc.

a. esp. The light flocculent substance formed by floating particles of cotton, down, etc.; fluff.

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1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery sig. cii^v That will gather up all the Flew and Dust.

1814 Ware in Trans. Med. & Chirurg. Soc. 256 The flue that is swept from bedrooms.

1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. iii. iii. 314 Amid heat, and dust, and flue from the cotton.

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 515/1 Its old-established flue under its old-established four-post bedsteads.

1886 E. Hodder Life Earl Shaftesbury I. iii. 139 Parched and suffocated by the dust and flue.

b. transferred. Any light floating particle. Cf. flow n.³

ΚΠ

a1849 T. L. Beddoes Torrismond i. iii, in Poems (1851) I. 75 It would not weigh a flue of melting snow In my opinion.

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fluen.³

Brit.

/fluː/, U.S.

/flu/

Etymology: of unknown origin. The exact primary sense is uncertain; assuming that it meant ‘channel, passage’, some have compared early modern Dutch vloegh flutings of a column (Kilian), and others would connect it with flow v. or flue v.¹ It is possible that the primary reference may be to the fluing (see flue v.²) of the sides of the chimney in houses of the 16th cent. This view derives some support from sense 5.

1. In early use = chimney n.; subsequently a smoke-duct in a chimney. Hence extended to denote a channel of various kinds for conveying heat, etc., esp. a hot-air passage in a wall; a pipe or tube for conveying heat to water in certain kinds of steam-boilers.The following passage is usually quoted as the earliest example of the word, which is supposed to mean here the spiral cavity of a shell. But flue is probably a misprint for flute.

1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid x. G gj b W^t whelkid shell Whose wrinckly wreathed flue, did fearful shril in seas outyell.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney > flue or shaft

tewelc1384

shaftc1450

tunnel1508

shankc1525

chimney-shank1552

flue1582

gullet1672

funnel1688

fire tube1729

vent1756

stalk1821

chimney neck1833

stovepipe1858

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > duct or pipe conveying heat

sidewaya1387

caliduct1624

floor-pipe1691

stovepipe1691

trill1707

flue1715

hot-water pipe1744

riser1876

flow-pipe1904

1582 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 424 All flewes and chymneys..made of earth..shalbe taken downe.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 122 The Chimnies flues like so many smiths forges.

1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 12 Builders have..carried the Flue or Funnel bending.

1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 33 Another notable Iron Invention, called a Flew, running through the Warehouses, fed with constant Fires to keep their dry Stores from being mouldy.

1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory (1818) 312 Stoves heated by means of flues.

1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 115 Each fire place has a flue, or gigantic pipe, which circulates from end to end of the boiler, making as many turns as the boiler will hold.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 4 He had to climb the dark flues, rubbing his poor knees and elbows raw.

†2. Coal Mining. A sloping trough for conveying coal into a receptacle; a shoot. ? Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shoot for coal or debris

flue1774

shoot1844

chute1884

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 48 Galleries..terminating in flues or hurries, placed sloping over the quay, and thro' these the coal is discharged..into the holds of the ships.

3. Organ-building. The fissure or ‘wind-way’ characteristic of ‘mouth-pipes’ (hence also called flue-pipes: see Compounds 2) as opposed to ‘reed-pipes’.

ΚΠ

1879 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 535 All organ-stops in which the sound is produced by the wind passing through a fissure, flue, or wind-way..belong to the Flue-work.

4. slang. The spout n. in a pawnbroker's shop. in flue: in pawn. up the flue: (a) pawned, (b) dead, collapsed.

ΚΠ

1821 P. Egan Real Life in London I. 566 (note) Up the spout or up the flue are synonimous in their import.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 250/1 I've had..to leave half my stock in flue with a deputy for a night's rest.

5. dialect. (See quot. 1787) [Perhaps a distinct word.]

ΚΠ

1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 379 Flue, the coping of a gable or end-wall of a house.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

flue-cleaner n.

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 891/1 Flue-cleaner.

flue-scraper n.

flue-tile n.

ΚΠ

1859 Archaeologia Cantiana 2 p. xli A very remarkable example of a Roman flue-tile.

flue-tube n.

ΚΠ

1878 Design & Work 4 335/1 Smoke and soot were discharged in such abundance as speedily to choke the flue-tubes.

flue-like adj.

ΚΠ

1908 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 8/2 The bursting in of the door..sent the flames up through the flue-like staircase.

C2.

flue-boiler n. (see quot. 1874).

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1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 522 My boiling was not conducted under as favorable auspices..as in the experiment previously alluded to with the flue boiler.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 891/1 Flue-boiler, a steam-boiler whose water space is traversed by flues.

flue-bridge n. a wall of fire-brick in a reverberatory furnace, between the hearth and the flue.

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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 134 Flue-bridge, the separating low wall between the flues and the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace.

flue-brush n. (see quot. 1874).

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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 891/1 Flue-brush, a cylindrical brush of wire or steel strips used to clean the scale and soot from the interior of a flue.

flue-cinder n. (see quot. 1873).

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1873 R. Hunt Weale's Dict. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) 190/1 Flue cinder, the cinder from an iron reheating furnace.

flue-cure v. (transitive) to cure (tobacco) by using artificial heat introduced by flues; so participial adjective, verbal noun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > prepare tobacco [verb (transitive)] > dry or cure

fire1883

flue-cure1909

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Flue-cure.

flue-cured adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [adjective] > cured with artificial heat

flue-cured1905

1905 G. M. Odlum Culture of Tobacco 99 In case of the flue-cured tobaccos, these barns would be too large to properly maintain the heat necessary.

1931 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 5 Sept. 535/4 The progress has been confined..to the production of bright flue-cured tobacco, principally in Norfolk, Oxford, and Elgin counties in Ontario.

1966 Times 23 May 16/5 The flue-cured crop represents only a small fraction of the Malawi tobacco crop.

flue-curing n.

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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with other materials > [noun] > processes in working with tobacco

flue-curing1886

priming1938

1886 C. G. W. Lock Tobacco iv. 220 We..have no space to describe the different methods of ‘curing’ tobacco, as, for instance,..‘flue-curing’, ‘open-fire-curing’, &c.

1923 Glasgow Herald 23 June 10 Each of these growers has a flue-curing barn.

flue-dust n. dust which collects in the flue of a furnace, spec. of a metallurgical furnace, and which contains valuable particles of metal, etc.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > dust > dust of other specific materials

bark-dustc1440

pin powder1502

pin-dust1552

brick dust1573

gun dust1703

flue-dust1857

wood powder1870

pouce1880

stone-dust1896

paper dust1906

1857 R. S. Burn Steam-engine (ed. 2) 77 Each chamber..is also connected with the bottom of the boiler by a series of vertical flue passages,..which..allow the flue-dust to precipitate into the spaces beneath.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 42/2 Both kinds of gas, when issuing from the burner, hold in mechanical suspension a considerable quantity of ‘flue-dust’.

1917 Nature 4 Oct. 92/1 The flue-dust of blast-furnaces.

1951 Engineering 20 July 75/2 Behaviour of aggregates of small particles such as..boiler flue dusts.

flue-faker n. slang (a) a chimney sweep; (b) (see quot. 1860).

ΚΠ

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 175 Flue-faker.

1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Flue fakers..low sporting characters, who are so termed from their chiefly betting on the Great Sweeps.

flue-full adj. full to the flue, brimful.

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1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 422 Flue-full, brimful, flowing full.

flue-gas n. any mixture of gases from the flues of chemical or smelting factories.

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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > named gases > [noun] > types

permanent gas1800

carrier gas1887

flue-gas1898

1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 74 ii. 188 Flue Gases in Relation to Furnace Efficiency.

1900 Engin. Mag. 19 760/1 The now easy process of flue-gas analysis.

1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. Suppl. 980/1 Flue gas temperature, temperature of flue gases at the point in the flue where it leaves the furnace.

flue-pipe n. an organ pipe with a ‘flue’ (see sense 3), a mouth-pipe, as opposed to a reed-pipe.

ΚΠ

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 27 The intonation of the flue-pipes.

flue-plate n. (see quot. 1874).

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 891/1 Flue-plate, a plate into which the ends of the flue are set.

flue-register n. a register in an organ comprising a series of flue-pipes.

ΚΠ

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 27 Kaufmann, of Dresden..made experiments with flue-registers.

flue-salt n. (see quot. 1884).

ΚΠ

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Flue salt..the waste salt formed on the flues where the lumps are dried.

flue-stop n. an organ stop controlling a flue-register.

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1855 E. J. Hopkins & E. F. Rimbault Organ xxi. 109 A Flue-stop [is] a similar series of lip pipes.

flue-surface n. (see quot. 1875).

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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 891/1 Flue-surface (Steam-engine), the area of surface of the boiler which is exposed to the action of the flame and heated gases after they have left the fire-chamber or furnace. The heating surface of a boiler is made up of the fire-surface and flue-surface.

flue-work n. the flue-stops of an organ collectively, as distinguished from the reed-stops.

ΚΠ

1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) ix. 57 All lip-stops belong to the Flue-work.

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fluen.⁴

Brit.

/fluː/, U.S.

/flu/

Forms: Also flew.

Etymology: of obscure etymology; Swedish has fly in sense 2. It is not certain that senses 1, 2 are of identical origin.

†1. ‘The tip of a deer's [?] horn’ (Halliwell at Flewed). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1532–3 [implied in: Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 13 It shall be lefull for him to weare..a horne tipped or flewed with siluer. (at flued adj.² 1)].

2. Nautical. The fluke n.² of an anchor; also that of a harpoon.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > fluke

fluke1561

grasp1561

hook1627

fluec1860

society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > harpoon > parts of

shank1820

stop-wither1820

fluec1860

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 57 The fish-tackle is..hooked to the inner flue.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 175 Ships which allow of the inner flues being got inboard.

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fluen.⁵

Brit.

/fluː/, U.S.

/flu/

Forms: Also flew.

Etymology: apparently a corruption of fleume, obsolete form of fleam n.¹

Obsolete exc. dialect.

A farrier's lancet, a fleam.

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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary equipment > bloodletting instruments

cornet1566

rosenet1566

fleam1616

cornet-horn1736

flue1790

1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 437 Flews, phlemes, for bleeding cattle, &c.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Flues, farriers' lancets.

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flueflewadj.¹

Brit.

/fluː/, U.S.

/flu/

Forms: Also 1500s flewe.

Etymology: of obscure origin; possibly related to flow v.; compare the relation of fleet adj.³ (= shallow) to fleet v.¹

Obsolete exc. dialect.

1. Shallow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > shallowness > [adjective]

shoal839

undeepc897

shallow14..

ebbc1425

fluec1440

light1556

fleet1629

depthless1816

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 167/1 Flew, or scholde, as vessell, bassus.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Flewe or not deape, but as one may wade, breuia.

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 171 I hope you do not think, that I meant your skull was so flue and shallow that [etc.].

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 318.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Flue, shallow.

2. = flan adj. (See quots., and flue v.²)

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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective]

flaring1627

flue1676

cyathiform1776

flanching1802

wineglass-cooler1884

aflare1895

umbelliferous1896

flared1928

1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. 142 And the like experiment he makes..of a heated Beer-glass with a more flew mouth.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Flew, open, wide, expanded. ‘Your bonnet is too flew’; ‘a flew dish’, i.e. one with wide spreading sides.

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flueflewadj.²

Brit.

/fluː/, U.S.

/flu/

Etymology: of uncertain origin; it corresponds in sense to Old French flo , flou (whence modern French flou in a specific sense relating to painting) and to Dutch flauw , Low German, modern High German flau ; but the mutual relation of the words is disputed. See also fluey adj.¹The initial f instead of v in Dutch word is usually an indication of foreign origin (except in the case of onomatopoeias); hence Kluge and Franck regard flauw as adopted, like the English word, < French; the ultimate source being Old Germanic *hlêwo- (German lau , English lew adj.¹) lukewarm. This is not very satisfactory. If Dutch flauw were a native word, it might correspond to an Old English *fleowe ( < *flawjo-) related to Old High German flewen to rinse, wash; for the sense compare washy.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

Weak, tender, sickly, delicate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak

unmightyeOE

unferea1060

unwieldc1220

fade1303

lewc1325

weak1340

fainta1375

sicklyc1374

unwieldyc1386

impotent1390

delicatea1398

lowa1398

unmighta1450

unlustyc1450

low-brought1459

wearyc1480

failed1490

worn1508

caduke?1518

fainty1530

weak1535

debile1536

fluey1545

tewly?1547

faltering1549

puling1549

imbecilec1550

debilitate1552

flash1562

unable1577

unhealthful1595

unabled1597

whindling1601

infirm1608

debilitated1611

bedrid1629

washya1631

silly1636

fluea1645

tender1645

invaletudinary1661

languishant1674

valetudinaire?c1682

puly1688

thriftless1693

unheartya1699

wishy-washy1703

enervate1706

valetudinarian1713

lask1727

wersh1755

palliea1774

wankle1781

asthenic1789

atonic1792

squeal1794

adynamic1803

worn-down1814

totterish1817

asthenical1819

prostrate1820

used up1823

wankya1825

creaky1834

groggy1834

puny1838

imbeciled1840

rickety-rackety1840

muscleless1841

weedy1849

tottery1861

crocky1880

wimbly-wambly1881

ramshackle1889

twitterly1896

twittery1907

wonky1919

strung out1959

a1645 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals (1852) III. i. 31 She is flewe, and never will be fatter.

1679 London Gaz. No. 1416/4 A flew Horse, and a star very remarkable in his forehead.

c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Flue, tender, weak; of a horse or person.

1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 19 That horse is very flue.

1889 in D. E. Hurst Horsham Sussex Gloss. s.v. ‘My Fanny is ill again, poor dear, she is so flue’.

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† fluev.¹

Etymology: < Old French flue-r, Latin fluĕre to flow.

Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To flow. Of parchment: To allow the ink to ‘run’.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [verb (intransitive)] > allow ink to run (of parchment)

flue1480

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 44 Iosse the parchemyn maker Solde me a skyn of parchemyn..That alle flued [Fr. qui tout flua].

1483 Cath. Angl. 136/2 To Flue, fluere.

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fluev.²

Brit.

/fluː/, U.S.

/flu/

Etymology: Apparently < flue adj.¹ (sense 2). Compare flan v. < flan adj.

intransitive. To expand; to splay.

ΚΠ

1778 W. Pain Carpenter's & Joiner's Repository facing Pl. LI A circular Soffit in a circular Wall, which is flewing on the Jambs.

Derivatives

flued adj.

ΚΠ

1859–60 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Flued, this word is applied instead of Splayed to a circular or semi-circular splayed opening.

1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Flewed, (of a hoop) to be made larger on one side than on the other so that it may fit the taper shape of a cask.

ˈfluing n. the divergent lines of a splayed opening.

ΚΠ

1778 W. Pain Carpenter's & Joiner's Repository facing Pl. LI Draw the Flewing of the Jambs c. d. and e. f. to meet at the Point a.

ˈfluing adj.

ΚΠ

1778 W. Pain Carpenter's & Joiner's Repository facing Pl. LI Figure A. is a circular..Soffit on flewing Jambs.

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n.¹1388

n.²1589

n.³1582

n.⁴1532

n.⁵1790

adj.¹c1440

adj.²a1645

v.¹1480

v.²1778

单词	flue
释义	flueflewn.¹ Brit. /fluː/, U.S. /flu/ Forms: Also Middle English flowe, Middle English flw(e, 1500s flewe. Etymology: compare Middle Dutch vluwe fishing-net (Dutch flouw snipe-net), French flu fine nappe d'un tramail (Boiste 1840: not in Littré), also flucq some kind of fishing apparatus (16th cent. in Godefroy); the mutual relation of the words is unknown. A kind of fishing-net: (a) a dragnet; (b) a fixed net; also flue-net. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets Peter netc1280 flue1388 wade1388 stalker1389 shove-net1418 trod-net1523 butt1533 web1533 fagnet1558 seur1558 trimnet1558 trollnet1558 pot-net1584 treat net1584 weir-net1585 hagan1630 henbilt1630 rugnet1630 basket-net1652 landing-net1653 stream-net1662 wolf1725 ram's horn1792 gill net1795 wolf-net1819 trap-net1856 forewheel1861 stow-net1871 lave net1875 kettle-bail1881 beating-net1883 keeve-net1883 net basin1883 wing-neta1884 trap-seine1891 lead-net1910 ghost net1959 1388–9 Accts. Abingdon Abbey (Camden) 57 J rete vocatum wade et j flowe. 1391 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 157 Willo Broune servienti meo..j flew, cum warrap et flot. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 168/1 Flwe, nette..tragum. 1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 509 My master paid to Chelone fore knyttynge of a flew, xvj.d. 1569 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 329 Nor laye any flewe or other nett in any of the same waters. 1611 Bible (King James) Hab. i. 15 They..gather them in their dragge [margin. flue-net] . View more context for this quotation 1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 66 No Fisherman..shall..use or exercise any Flue, Trammel..or hooped Net whatsoever. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 5 Fishing with trammels, or flews in March or April. 1851 H. Newland Erne 75 It is generally caught by a flue, set between the openings of the weeds. 1882 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck Three in Norway vi. 44 Seven boats..were out with a huge flue net. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). fluen.² Brit. /fluː/, U.S. /flu/ Forms: Also 1500s floow, 1600s–1800s flew. Etymology: of unknown origin; compare modern Flemish vluwe of same meaning (Franck s.v. fluweel) which, like the Dutch fluweel and medieval Latin fluetum velvet, is believed to be derived < French velu hairy, downy. But see fluff n.¹ †1. A woolly or downy substance; down, nap. Also plural bits of down. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > softness and downiness or fluffiness > downy or fluffy substance down1542 flue1589 lanugo1677 fluff1790 oose1822 1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 69 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Towels with nap shorne off (The floow or roughnes shorne away for feare to hurt his handes). 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 271 A bed filled with flew or wooll of Hares. 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 100 They will be as big as Lice with Rags or Flews about them. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Flue, The soft down from feathers, and the skins from rabbits, etc. 2. a. esp. The light flocculent substance formed by floating particles of cotton, down, etc.; fluff. ΚΠ 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery sig. cii^v That will gather up all the Flew and Dust. 1814 Ware in Trans. Med. & Chirurg. Soc. 256 The flue that is swept from bedrooms. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. iii. iii. 314 Amid heat, and dust, and flue from the cotton. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 515/1 Its old-established flue under its old-established four-post bedsteads. 1886 E. Hodder Life Earl Shaftesbury I. iii. 139 Parched and suffocated by the dust and flue. b. transferred. Any light floating particle. Cf. flow n.³ ΚΠ a1849 T. L. Beddoes Torrismond i. iii, in Poems (1851) I. 75 It would not weigh a flue of melting snow In my opinion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fluen.³ Brit. /fluː/, U.S. /flu/ Etymology: of unknown origin. The exact primary sense is uncertain; assuming that it meant ‘channel, passage’, some have compared early modern Dutch vloegh flutings of a column (Kilian), and others would connect it with flow v. or flue v.¹ It is possible that the primary reference may be to the fluing (see flue v.²) of the sides of the chimney in houses of the 16th cent. This view derives some support from sense 5. 1. In early use = chimney n.; subsequently a smoke-duct in a chimney. Hence extended to denote a channel of various kinds for conveying heat, etc., esp. a hot-air passage in a wall; a pipe or tube for conveying heat to water in certain kinds of steam-boilers.The following passage is usually quoted as the earliest example of the word, which is supposed to mean here the spiral cavity of a shell. But flue is probably a misprint for flute. 1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid x. G gj b W^t whelkid shell Whose wrinckly wreathed flue, did fearful shril in seas outyell. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney > flue or shaft tewelc1384 shaftc1450 tunnel1508 shankc1525 chimney-shank1552 flue1582 gullet1672 funnel1688 fire tube1729 vent1756 stalk1821 chimney neck1833 stovepipe1858 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > duct or pipe conveying heat sidewaya1387 caliduct1624 floor-pipe1691 stovepipe1691 trill1707 flue1715 hot-water pipe1744 riser1876 flow-pipe1904 1582 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 424 All flewes and chymneys..made of earth..shalbe taken downe. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 122 The Chimnies flues like so many smiths forges. 1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 12 Builders have..carried the Flue or Funnel bending. 1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 33 Another notable Iron Invention, called a Flew, running through the Warehouses, fed with constant Fires to keep their dry Stores from being mouldy. 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory (1818) 312 Stoves heated by means of flues. 1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 115 Each fire place has a flue, or gigantic pipe, which circulates from end to end of the boiler, making as many turns as the boiler will hold. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 4 He had to climb the dark flues, rubbing his poor knees and elbows raw. †2. Coal Mining. A sloping trough for conveying coal into a receptacle; a shoot. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shoot for coal or debris flue1774 shoot1844 chute1884 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 48 Galleries..terminating in flues or hurries, placed sloping over the quay, and thro' these the coal is discharged..into the holds of the ships. 3. Organ-building. The fissure or ‘wind-way’ characteristic of ‘mouth-pipes’ (hence also called flue-pipes: see Compounds 2) as opposed to ‘reed-pipes’. ΚΠ 1879 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 535 All organ-stops in which the sound is produced by the wind passing through a fissure, flue, or wind-way..belong to the Flue-work. 4. slang. The spout n. in a pawnbroker's shop. in flue: in pawn. up the flue: (a) pawned, (b) dead, collapsed. ΚΠ 1821 P. Egan Real Life in London I. 566 (note) Up the spout or up the flue are synonimous in their import. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 250/1 I've had..to leave half my stock in flue with a deputy for a night's rest. 5. dialect. (See quot. 1787) [Perhaps a distinct word.] ΚΠ 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 379 Flue, the coping of a gable or end-wall of a house. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. flue-cleaner n. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 891/1 Flue-cleaner. flue-scraper n. flue-tile n. ΚΠ 1859 Archaeologia Cantiana 2 p. xli A very remarkable example of a Roman flue-tile. flue-tube n. ΚΠ 1878 Design & Work 4 335/1 Smoke and soot were discharged in such abundance as speedily to choke the flue-tubes. b. flue-like adj. ΚΠ 1908 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 8/2 The bursting in of the door..sent the flames up through the flue-like staircase. C2. flue-boiler n. (see quot. 1874). ΚΠ 1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 522 My boiling was not conducted under as favorable auspices..as in the experiment previously alluded to with the flue boiler. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 891/1 Flue-boiler, a steam-boiler whose water space is traversed by flues. flue-bridge n. a wall of fire-brick in a reverberatory furnace, between the hearth and the flue. ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 134 Flue-bridge, the separating low wall between the flues and the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace. flue-brush n. (see quot. 1874). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 891/1 Flue-brush, a cylindrical brush of wire or steel strips used to clean the scale and soot from the interior of a flue. flue-cinder n. (see quot. 1873). ΚΠ 1873 R. Hunt Weale's Dict. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) 190/1 Flue cinder, the cinder from an iron reheating furnace. flue-cure v. (transitive) to cure (tobacco) by using artificial heat introduced by flues; so participial adjective, verbal noun. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > prepare tobacco [verb (transitive)] > dry or cure fire1883 flue-cure1909 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Flue-cure. flue-cured adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [adjective] > cured with artificial heat flue-cured1905 1905 G. M. Odlum Culture of Tobacco 99 In case of the flue-cured tobaccos, these barns would be too large to properly maintain the heat necessary. 1931 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 5 Sept. 535/4 The progress has been confined..to the production of bright flue-cured tobacco, principally in Norfolk, Oxford, and Elgin counties in Ontario. 1966 Times 23 May 16/5 The flue-cured crop represents only a small fraction of the Malawi tobacco crop. flue-curing n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with other materials > [noun] > processes in working with tobacco flue-curing1886 priming1938 1886 C. G. W. Lock Tobacco iv. 220 We..have no space to describe the different methods of ‘curing’ tobacco, as, for instance,..‘flue-curing’, ‘open-fire-curing’, &c. 1923 Glasgow Herald 23 June 10 Each of these growers has a flue-curing barn. flue-dust n. dust which collects in the flue of a furnace, spec. of a metallurgical furnace, and which contains valuable particles of metal, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > dust > dust of other specific materials bark-dustc1440 pin powder1502 pin-dust1552 brick dust1573 gun dust1703 flue-dust1857 wood powder1870 pouce1880 stone-dust1896 paper dust1906 1857 R. S. Burn Steam-engine (ed. 2) 77 Each chamber..is also connected with the bottom of the boiler by a series of vertical flue passages,..which..allow the flue-dust to precipitate into the spaces beneath. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 42/2 Both kinds of gas, when issuing from the burner, hold in mechanical suspension a considerable quantity of ‘flue-dust’. 1917 Nature 4 Oct. 92/1 The flue-dust of blast-furnaces. 1951 Engineering 20 July 75/2 Behaviour of aggregates of small particles such as..boiler flue dusts. flue-faker n. slang (a) a chimney sweep; (b) (see quot. 1860). ΚΠ 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 175 Flue-faker. 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Flue fakers..low sporting characters, who are so termed from their chiefly betting on the Great Sweeps. flue-full adj. full to the flue, brimful. ΚΠ 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 422 Flue-full, brimful, flowing full. flue-gas n. any mixture of gases from the flues of chemical or smelting factories. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > named gases > [noun] > types permanent gas1800 carrier gas1887 flue-gas1898 1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 74 ii. 188 Flue Gases in Relation to Furnace Efficiency. 1900 Engin. Mag. 19 760/1 The now easy process of flue-gas analysis. 1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. Suppl. 980/1 Flue gas temperature, temperature of flue gases at the point in the flue where it leaves the furnace. flue-pipe n. an organ pipe with a ‘flue’ (see sense 3), a mouth-pipe, as opposed to a reed-pipe. ΚΠ 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 27 The intonation of the flue-pipes. flue-plate n. (see quot. 1874). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 891/1 Flue-plate, a plate into which the ends of the flue are set. flue-register n. a register in an organ comprising a series of flue-pipes. ΚΠ 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 27 Kaufmann, of Dresden..made experiments with flue-registers. flue-salt n. (see quot. 1884). ΚΠ 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Flue salt..the waste salt formed on the flues where the lumps are dried. flue-stop n. an organ stop controlling a flue-register. ΚΠ 1855 E. J. Hopkins & E. F. Rimbault Organ xxi. 109 A Flue-stop [is] a similar series of lip pipes. flue-surface n. (see quot. 1875). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 891/1 Flue-surface (Steam-engine), the area of surface of the boiler which is exposed to the action of the flame and heated gases after they have left the fire-chamber or furnace. The heating surface of a boiler is made up of the fire-surface and flue-surface. flue-work n. the flue-stops of an organ collectively, as distinguished from the reed-stops. ΚΠ 1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) ix. 57 All lip-stops belong to the Flue-work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fluen.⁴ Brit. /fluː/, U.S. /flu/ Forms: Also flew. Etymology: of obscure etymology; Swedish has fly in sense 2. It is not certain that senses 1, 2 are of identical origin. †1. ‘The tip of a deer's [?] horn’ (Halliwell at Flewed). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1532–3 [implied in: Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 13 It shall be lefull for him to weare..a horne tipped or flewed with siluer. (at flued adj.² 1)]. 2. Nautical. The fluke n.² of an anchor; also that of a harpoon. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > fluke fluke1561 grasp1561 hook1627 fluec1860 society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > harpoon > parts of shank1820 stop-wither1820 fluec1860 c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 57 The fish-tackle is..hooked to the inner flue. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 175 Ships which allow of the inner flues being got inboard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fluen.⁵ Brit. /fluː/, U.S. /flu/ Forms: Also flew. Etymology: apparently a corruption of fleume, obsolete form of fleam n.¹ Obsolete exc. dialect. A farrier's lancet, a fleam. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary equipment > bloodletting instruments cornet1566 rosenet1566 fleam1616 cornet-horn1736 flue1790 1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 437 Flews, phlemes, for bleeding cattle, &c. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Flues, farriers' lancets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flueflewadj.¹ Brit. /fluː/, U.S. /flu/ Forms: Also 1500s flewe. Etymology: of obscure origin; possibly related to flow v.; compare the relation of fleet adj.³ (= shallow) to fleet v.¹ Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. Shallow. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > shallowness > [adjective] shoal839 undeepc897 shallow14.. ebbc1425 fluec1440 light1556 fleet1629 depthless1816 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 167/1 Flew, or scholde, as vessell, bassus. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Flewe or not deape, but as one may wade, breuia. 1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 171 I hope you do not think, that I meant your skull was so flue and shallow that [etc.]. 1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 318. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Flue, shallow. 2. = flan adj. (See quots., and flue v.²) ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] flaring1627 flue1676 cyathiform1776 flanching1802 wineglass-cooler1884 aflare1895 umbelliferous1896 flared1928 1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. 142 And the like experiment he makes..of a heated Beer-glass with a more flew mouth. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Flew, open, wide, expanded. ‘Your bonnet is too flew’; ‘a flew dish’, i.e. one with wide spreading sides. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flueflewadj.² Brit. /fluː/, U.S. /flu/ Etymology: of uncertain origin; it corresponds in sense to Old French flo , flou (whence modern French flou in a specific sense relating to painting) and to Dutch flauw , Low German, modern High German flau ; but the mutual relation of the words is disputed. See also fluey adj.¹The initial f instead of v in Dutch word is usually an indication of foreign origin (except in the case of onomatopoeias); hence Kluge and Franck regard flauw as adopted, like the English word, < French; the ultimate source being Old Germanic hlêwo- (German lau* , English lew adj.¹) lukewarm. This is not very satisfactory. If Dutch flauw were a native word, it might correspond to an Old English fleowe ( < flawjo-) related to Old High German flewen to rinse, wash; for the sense compare washy. Obsolete exc. dialect. Weak, tender, sickly, delicate. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak unmightyeOE unferea1060 unwieldc1220 fade1303 lewc1325 weak1340 fainta1375 sicklyc1374 unwieldyc1386 impotent1390 delicatea1398 lowa1398 unmighta1450 unlustyc1450 low-brought1459 wearyc1480 failed1490 worn1508 caduke?1518 fainty1530 weak1535 debile1536 fluey1545 tewly?1547 faltering1549 puling1549 imbecilec1550 debilitate1552 flash1562 unable1577 unhealthful1595 unabled1597 whindling1601 infirm1608 debilitated1611 bedrid1629 washya1631 silly1636 fluea1645 tender1645 invaletudinary1661 languishant1674 valetudinaire?c1682 puly1688 thriftless1693 unheartya1699 wishy-washy1703 enervate1706 valetudinarian1713 lask1727 wersh1755 palliea1774 wankle1781 asthenic1789 atonic1792 squeal1794 adynamic1803 worn-down1814 totterish1817 asthenical1819 prostrate1820 used up1823 wankya1825 creaky1834 groggy1834 puny1838 imbeciled1840 rickety-rackety1840 muscleless1841 weedy1849 tottery1861 crocky1880 wimbly-wambly1881 ramshackle1889 twitterly1896 twittery1907 wonky1919 strung out1959 a1645 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals (1852) III. i. 31 She is flewe, and never will be fatter. 1679 London Gaz. No. 1416/4 A flew Horse, and a star very remarkable in his forehead. c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Flue, tender, weak; of a horse or person. 1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 19 That horse is very flue. 1889 in D. E. Hurst Horsham Sussex Gloss. s.v. ‘My Fanny is ill again, poor dear, she is so flue’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † fluev.¹ Etymology: < Old French flue-r, Latin fluĕre to flow. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To flow. Of parchment: To allow the ink to ‘run’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [verb (intransitive)] > allow ink to run (of parchment) flue1480 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 44 Iosse the parchemyn maker Solde me a skyn of parchemyn..That alle flued [Fr. qui tout flua]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 136/2 To Flue, fluere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). fluev.² Brit. /fluː/, U.S. /flu/ Etymology: Apparently < flue adj.¹ (sense 2). Compare flan v. < flan adj. intransitive. To expand; to splay. ΚΠ 1778 W. Pain Carpenter's & Joiner's Repository facing Pl. LI A circular Soffit in a circular Wall, which is flewing on the Jambs. Derivatives flued adj. ΚΠ 1859–60 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Flued, this word is applied instead of Splayed to a circular or semi-circular splayed opening. 1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Flewed, (of a hoop) to be made larger on one side than on the other so that it may fit the taper shape of a cask. ˈfluing n. the divergent lines of a splayed opening. ΚΠ 1778 W. Pain Carpenter's & Joiner's Repository facing Pl. LI Draw the Flewing of the Jambs c. d. and e. f. to meet at the Point a. ˈfluing adj. ΚΠ 1778 W. Pain Carpenter's & Joiner's Repository facing Pl. LI Figure A. is a circular..Soffit on flewing Jambs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1388n.²1589n.³1582n.⁴1532n.⁵1790adj.¹c1440adj.²a1645v.¹1480v.²1778
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