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bread-fleigh

bread-fleigh noun: synonym of bread flake.

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

Synonyms of bread-fleigh

Forms of bread-fleigh

alternative formbrade-fleigh

Questions about bread-fleigh

What does bread-fleigh mean?
Bread-fleigh means synonym of bread flake.
What part of speech is bread-fleigh?
Bread-fleigh is a noun.

Words near bread-fleigh in the dictionary

  1. bread-bearer
  2. bread-bearers
  3. bread-berry
  4. bread-controller
  5. bread-corn
  6. bread-fleigh
  7. bread-head
  8. bread-heads
  9. bread-monger
  10. bread-mongers
  11. bread-nut

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