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Definition of Flackets
1. flacket [n] - See also: flacket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flackets
Literary usage of Flackets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1856)
"... (but when these flackets came to be received, ther was left but 6. gallons of
ye 2. hogsheads, it being drunke up under ye name ..."
2. Three Episodes of Massachusetts History: The Settlement of Boston Bay; the by Charles Francis Adams (1892)
"This liquor belonged to Plymouth parties, but, the Friendship going to Boston,
the contents of the hogsheads were there transferred into wooden “flackets. ..."
3. The British Dominions in North America, Or, A Topographical and Statistical by Joseph Bouchette, Bouchette, Joseph, 1774-1841 (1831)
"By degrees the size of these flackets is increased, until at length, instead of
small parcels, they assume the form of large circular stacks ; and in this ..."
4. History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 by William Bradford, Massachusetts Historical Society (1912)
"... (but when these flackets came to be received, ther was left but • 6 • gallons
of the • 2 • hogsheads, it being drunke up under the name ..."
5. Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650 by William Bradford, Harold Paget (1920)
"He told them there was not much for them in the Friendship, —only two parcels of
Barnstable rugs, and two hogsheads of methylene in wooden flackets. ..."
6. Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646 by William Bradford (1908)
"... (but when these flackets came to be received, ther was left but 6. gallons of
the 2. hogsheads, it being drunke up under the name ..."
7. America and the West Indies: Geographically Described by George Long, George Richardson Porter, George Tucker, Wilhelm Wittich (1845)
"By degrees the size of these flackets is increased, until at length, instead of
small parcels, they assume the form of large circular stacks, ..."
8. History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, Charles Deane (1856)
"... (but when these flackets came to be received, ther was left but 6. gallons of
ye 2. hogsheads, it being drunke up under ye name ..."
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