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Definition of Flacking
1. flack [v] - See also: flack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flacking
Literary usage of Flacking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Statistical Survey of the County of Monaghan: With Observations on the Means by Charles Coote (1801)
"... the method encouraged long ago by the Dublin Society, of flacking flax, in
order to fave the feed, and I am warranted in it by the opinions of many very ..."
2. The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1800)
"... in the flacking) 268,9 of water, and alfo 35 grains of fixed air, ...
while flacking and drying, there remain then 668 of mere lime, ..."
3. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1806)
"... of drawing and flacking before winter, by admitting of early ploughing to ...
and flacking Ihe whole crop of turnips on twelve acres and a quarter. ..."
4. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset: With Observations by John Billingsley, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (1798)
"... and if the weather be very fine, and the crop not exceeding thirty cwt.
per acre, it will be fit for flacking;—if ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Flocking, sb., var. of ' flacking' and ' flapping,' palpitation. Floor, sb., pec.
the ground. Witness. 'A got 'im daown o' the/fare.' Counsel. ..."
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