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fleaking

fleaking noun: in a thatched building: a light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid. Also the present participle and gerund of fleak.

Noun

fleaking (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) In a thatched building: a light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid.
    • A narrow eaves-board being nailed across the feet of the spars, and some fleaking scattered on, the thatcher begins to “set his caves,” by laying a coat of reed[…]1787, John Collier, A View of the Lancashire Dialect, or, Tummus and Mar

Also used as

fleaking is also the present participle and gerund of fleak.

Origin of fleaking

See fleak.

Questions about fleaking

What does fleaking mean?
Fleaking means in a thatched building: a light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid.
What part of speech is fleaking?
Fleaking is a noun.

Words near fleaking in the dictionary

  1. fleaing
  2. fleak
  3. fleaked
  4. fleaker
  5. fleakers
  6. fleaking
  7. fleaks
  8. flealike
  9. fleam
  10. fleamarket
  11. fleamarketed

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