ˈbelly-flaught, a. Sc.
[f. belly n. + flaught, ‘in full flight’ (Jam.).]
1. Headlong; precipitate.
| c 1375 ? Barbour St. Barthol. 316 And bely-flawcht flede alsone. 1712–58 A. Ramsay Poems (1844) 78 The bauld guid-wife..Came *bellyflaught. 1805 Nicoll Poems I. 31 (Jam.) Beath flew bellie-flaught I' the pool. |
2. to flay belly-flaught: i.e. by pulling the skin off entire over the head.
| a 1550 Priests of Peblis 25 (Jam.) Thus fla they al the puir men belly flaught. 1774 Monro Descr. Hebr. 47 (Jam.) Quhen they slay their sheepe, they flay them belly flaught. |