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Definition of Fleeching
1. fleech [v] - See also: fleech
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleeching
Literary usage of Fleeching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"... At fair or at preaching nae wooing, nae fleeching"— The Flowers of the Forest
are a' \vede away. At e'en, at the gloaming, ..."
2. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1881)
"... questions to speir 1 And frae that day till this he can gang to the meeting
Quo' Jenny, " I can," then quo' Tam—" So can I! " Without either fleeching ..."
3. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"... and gray: At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching— The Flowers of
the Forest are a' wede away. ..."
4. Specimens of British Poetesses by Alexander Dyce (1827)
"... nae wooing, nae fleeching; The flowers of the forest'are a' wede awae. At e'en,
in the gloaming, nae younkers are roaming, 'Bout stacks, with the lasses ..."
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