Definition of Fleeching

1. Verb. (present participle of fleech) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fleeching

1. fleech [v] - See also: fleech

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleeching

fledgling(a)
fledglings
fledgy
flee
fleece
fleece worm
fleeceable
fleeced
fleeceless
fleecer
fleecers
fleeces
fleech
fleeched
fleeches
fleeching (current term)
fleecier
fleeciest
fleecily
fleeciness
fleecing
fleecy
fleed
fleeing
fleer
fleered
fleerer
fleerers
fleering
fleeringly

Literary usage of Fleeching

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"... At fair or at preaching nae wooing, nae fleeching"— The Flowers of the Forest are a' \vede away. At e'en, at the gloaming, ..."

2. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1881)
"... questions to speir 1 And frae that day till this he can gang to the meeting Quo' Jenny, " I can," then quo' Tam—" So can I! " Without either fleeching ..."

3. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"... and gray: At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching— The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away. ..."

4. Specimens of British Poetesses by Alexander Dyce (1827)
"... nae wooing, nae fleeching; The flowers of the forest'are a' wede awae. At e'en, in the gloaming, nae younkers are roaming, 'Bout stacks, with the lasses ..."

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