† flathe, flath Obs.
[Cf. OHG. flado, MHG. flade flat cake; an OE. *flaða has not been found.]
1. = flathon, flawn.
| c 1450 Interl. Gloss. John de Garlande in Wright Voc. 127 Flaones fartos, flathen ystuffyd. |
2. A name for the ray or skate.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 164/2 Flathe, or flathe [sic], fysche (flay, or flacch, fysch.) (R)agadies. 1466 Mann. & Househ. Exp. 334 Item, the same day my mastyr paid for a fflathe..xiij. d. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 127 a, The fishe called in Latin pastinaca marina, whych is lyke vnto a flath. 1577 Harrison Descr. Eng. iii. iii. in Holinshed (1587) I. 224 Our chaits, maidens, kingsons, flath and thornbacke. c 1601 J. Keymor Dutch Fishing (1664) 8 Soals, Thorneback, Floith [sic], Scate, Brett [etc.]. |