† fletn.¹

Forms: Old English, Middle English–1500s, 1700s flet, Middle English southern vlet, Middle English flett(e, (1500s fleete, fleit, flelt), 1600s–1700s flett.

Etymology: Old English flęt(t = Old Frisian flet , Old Saxon flet , fletti , Old High German flazi , flezi (Middle High German vletze , German dialect fletz ), Old Norse flet strong neuter < Old Germanic *flatjo^m , < *flato- flat adj.

Obsolete.

a. The floor or ground under one's feet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun]

ground971

earthOE

fleta1000

foldOE

landOE

floor?a1400

soila1400

margin?a1425

yird1433

sulye1434

swardc1440

leaa1475

paithmentc1480

visagea1500

crust1555

mother earth1568

solum1829

carpet1918

deck1925

dutty1925

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun]

fleta1000

floorc1000

floorth1303

loftingc1540

contignation1592

loft1596

contabulation1615

flooring1624

planchera1825

contablature1827

ground1847

Rory O'More1857

floor level1874

Rory1938

OE Beowulf 1568 Heo on flet gecrong.

a1000 Canons Powerful Men ii. (Thorpe, 1840) 414 & ne cume on bedde ac licge on flette.

a1300 E.E. Psalter cxviii. [cxix] 25 Clived mi saule to þi flet.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 568 A tule tapit, tyȝt ouer þe flet.

a1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 473 Thi berne also be playne, and harde the flette.

c1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 273 Knelynge doun upon the flette.

b. ? A place, spot, field (of battle).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > [noun]

stowc888

stokea900

steadc1000

placec1250

fletc1275

roomc1330

spotc1400

where1443

quarter1448

plat1556

stour1583

situation1610

ubity1624

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun]

fieldeOE

place?c1225

fletc1275

champ of battlec1300

champany?a1400

o laundon?a1400

palaestrac1425

battle-stead1487

fighting-stead1487

open fielda1500

spear-field1508

joining-place1513

camp1525

foughten field1569

battleground1588

Aceldama1607

champian?1611

field of honour1611

champaign1614

standing ground1662

fighting-field1676

battlefield1715

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12988 Þat he com to þan ulette [c1300 Otho fure] þer þe feond lai and slæpte.

c1300 K. Alis. 2378 They broughte heom out of the flette.

a. A dwelling, house, ‘hall’.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > dwelling of king or ruler > [noun]

hall971

fleta1000

saleOE

courta1175

palacec1300

praetoryc1384

praetorium1536

serail1585

seraglio1589

serai1617

sirkar1619

alcazar1623

alkedavy1631

palaisc1660

Residenz1824

istana1839

arch-house1876

OE Beowulf 1025 Beowulf geþah ful on flette.

a1000 Laws Hlothhære & Eadric xi. (Thorpe 1840) 14 Ȝif man mannan an oðres flette man-swara hateð..scilling agelde þam þe þæt flet age.

a1300 Siriz 273 So ich evere brouke hous other flet.

c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 309 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 337 An hep of girles sittende aboute the flet.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 34 I shall not in thi det Flyt of this flett.

b. Scottish. The inner part of a house.

ΚΠ

a1400 Burgh Laws xxiii, in Sc. Stat. I Þe inner halfe of þe hous þat is callyt þe flett.

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Rank beggar, ostir dregar, foule fleggar in the flet.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 830 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 121 The fulis fonde in ye flet And mony mowis at mete On ye flure maid.

a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. A4^v A fair fire makes a roome flet.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 588 That seven years have sitten i' the flet.

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 X^t 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	flet
释义	† fletn.¹ Forms: Old English, Middle English–1500s, 1700s flet, Middle English southern vlet, Middle English flett(e, (1500s fleete, fleit, flelt), 1600s–1700s flett. Etymology: Old English flęt(t = Old Frisian flet , Old Saxon flet , fletti , Old High German flazi , flezi (Middle High German vletze , German dialect fletz ), Old Norse flet strong neuter < Old Germanic flatjo^m , < flato- flat adj. Obsolete. 1. a. The floor or ground under one's feet. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] ground971 earthOE fleta1000 foldOE landOE floor?a1400 soila1400 margin?a1425 yird1433 sulye1434 swardc1440 leaa1475 paithmentc1480 visagea1500 crust1555 mother earth1568 solum1829 carpet1918 deck1925 dutty1925 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] fleta1000 floorc1000 floorth1303 loftingc1540 contignation1592 loft1596 contabulation1615 flooring1624 planchera1825 contablature1827 ground1847 Rory O'More1857 floor level1874 Rory1938 OE Beowulf 1568 Heo on flet gecrong. a1000 Canons Powerful Men ii. (Thorpe, 1840) 414 & ne cume on bedde ac licge on flette. a1300 E.E. Psalter cxviii. [cxix] 25 Clived mi saule to þi flet. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 568 A tule tapit, tyȝt ouer þe flet. a1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 473 Thi berne also be playne, and harde the flette. c1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 273 Knelynge doun upon the flette. b. ? A place, spot, field (of battle). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] stowc888 stokea900 steadc1000 placec1250 fletc1275 roomc1330 spotc1400 where1443 quarter1448 plat1556 stour1583 situation1610 ubity1624 society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] fieldeOE place?c1225 fletc1275 champ of battlec1300 champany?a1400 o laundon?a1400 palaestrac1425 battle-stead1487 fighting-stead1487 open fielda1500 spear-field1508 joining-place1513 camp1525 foughten field1569 battleground1588 Aceldama1607 champian?1611 field of honour1611 champaign1614 standing ground1662 fighting-field1676 battlefield1715 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12988 Þat he com to þan ulette [c1300 Otho fure] þer þe feond lai and slæpte. c1300 K. Alis. 2378 They broughte heom out of the flette. 2. a. A dwelling, house, ‘hall’. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > dwelling of king or ruler > [noun] hall971 fleta1000 saleOE courta1175 palacec1300 praetoryc1384 praetorium1536 serail1585 seraglio1589 serai1617 sirkar1619 alcazar1623 alkedavy1631 palaisc1660 Residenz1824 istana1839 arch-house1876 OE Beowulf 1025 Beowulf geþah ful on flette. a1000 Laws Hlothhære & Eadric xi. (Thorpe 1840) 14 Ȝif man mannan an oðres flette man-swara hateð..scilling agelde þam þe þæt flet age. a1300 Siriz 273 So ich evere brouke hous other flet. c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 309 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 337 An hep of girles sittende aboute the flet. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 34 I shall not in thi det Flyt of this flett. b. Scottish. The inner part of a house. ΚΠ a1400 Burgh Laws xxiii, in Sc. Stat. I Þe inner halfe of þe hous þat is callyt þe flett. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Rank beggar, ostir dregar, foule fleggar in the flet. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 830 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 121 The fulis fonde in ye flet And mony mowis at mete On ye flure maid. a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. A4^v A fair fire makes a roome flet. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 588 That seven years have sitten i' the flet. 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 X^t 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). fletn.² Brit. /flɛt/, U.S. /flɛt/, Scottish English /flɛt/ Forms: Also fleat. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: apparently representing Old Norse flétta plait, < flétta = German flechten to plait. Scottish. A mat of plaited straw placed on a pack-horse's back to prevent chafing or galling. ΚΠ 1794 W. Sutherland in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. X. 23 Straw creels..fixed over straw flets, on the horses backs, with a clubber and straw ropes. 1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Sutherland v. §5. 60 The horse being equipped with a fleat and clubbar on his back. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1000n.²1794
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