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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Flaw, n.³ [e.m.E. (1586).] A defect; a break or fault in a thing. (The meaning in the first two quotations is doubtful.) — a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 55.
As attircop fechtis to fang a fle Makand hir net quhilk falȝeis nocht a flaw c1500-c1512 Dunb. xiv. 29.
Sic fenȝeit flawis, sa mony waistit wawis Within this land was nevir hard nor sene 1526 Reg. Panmure II. 304.
The sowme of twa hundreth merkis in gold … haill unsowdit, but crak or flaw a1568 Scott ii. 195.
Thus hame, with mony crak & flaw, They passid every ane