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Definition of Fliting
1. flite [v] - See also: flite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fliting
Literary usage of Fliting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"A servant would say of a scolding mistress, she fliting agean ; or don't ...
fliting may be performed by one person, the other being silent ..."
2. Specimens of Early English: With Introductions, Notes, and Glossarial Index by Richard Morris (1887)
"This poem is of the character which may be described as 'a fliting," or ...
compare the poem entitled ' The fliting of Dunbar and Kennedy,' in which those ..."
3. Publications by Scottish History Society (1894)
"... for grinding ye razors, to workmen at our fliting, and for eall to masons,
cariers away of red, and to other workmen . . . 0 19 0 spent w' Ja. nie., ..."
4. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin by University of Wisconsin (1908)
"... however, that Beowulf got the best of the 'fliting'. Ibid., 499 ft. "HM., 588-89. ..."
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