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brade-fleigh

brade-fleigh is the alternative form of bread-fleigh.

Meaning of bread-fleigh

Noun

bread-fleigh

  1. (obsolete, Lancashire) Synonym of bread flake.
    • 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;1980, Roger Elbourne, Music and Tradition in Early Industrial Lancashire, 1780-1840, page 127
    Synonyms:
    bread flake

Questions about brade-fleigh

What is brade-fleigh the alternative form of?
Brade-fleigh is the alternative form of bread-fleigh.

Words near brade-fleigh in the dictionary

  1. Braddon
  2. Braddonian
  3. Braddy
  4. Braddys
  5. brade-flake
  6. brade-fleigh
  7. Braden
  8. Bradenham
  9. bradenhead
  10. bradenheads
  11. Bradens

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