bread-fleigh

bread-fleigh

English

Noun

bread-fleigh

  1. (Lancashire, obsolete) Synonym of bread flake.
    • 1980, Roger Elbourne, Music and Tradition in Early Industrial Lancashire, 1780-1840, page 127:
      he also made bread- or "brade- fleighs" (the latter syllable with a guttaral sound), to hang horizontally under the kitchen ceiling — rectangular wooden frames several feet square, with cross-bars of wood or cord, on which might be placed the oat-cake bread to dry and harden;

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References

  1. ^ Nodal, J.H. (1875), A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, Alexander Ireland and Co., page 51
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