Lexicographical Neighbors of Flabs
Literary usage of Flabs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Precedents in Conveyancing: Settled and Approved by the Most by Thomas Walter Williams (1788)
"... flabs, and other improvements done to the faid ... the faid partitions, marble
chimney-pieces, flabs and improvements, ..."
2. The Worcester Magazine by Isaiah Thomas (1787)
"... flabs are brought to a wedge point at one end. They are malleable iron, ...
and then to pafs them through the rollers of a rolling mill : The flabs ..."
3. A Natural History of Fossils by Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1757)
"After having cut them into flabs, the inhabitants of the north part of the ifland,
... flabs at one time by cattle, with a machine, which they there call ..."
4. An Inquiry Into the Original State and Formation of the Earth by John Whitehurst (1792)
"4. plate I. They may be compared to two flabs of marble, ... flabs is represented
by the two lines V, V, plate I. fig. 5. ..."
5. Magna Britannia;: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several by Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S. Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons, F.R.S. Samuel Lysons (1808)
"... ridged flabs (like the lids of itone coffins) with erodes on them, are placed
on the ... of Landbeach : two flabs in the nave of Saw- iton church with ..."
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