fleerish Sc.
(ˈflɪərɪʃ)
Also flourice, fleurish.
(Flint and) steel.
| 1825 Jamieson Suppl., Flourice. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xi. 81 Parishioners..who cared not to carry ‘fleerish and flint’ in their ‘Sunday claes’. 1880 Shirley Crookit Meg xxii. in Fraser's Mag. May 651 A piece of tinder is ignited with the old-fashioned ‘flint and fleerish’. 1892 Blackw. Mag. Oct. 486 In Buchan the steel was called the fleurish or fleerish. |