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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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FLAUCHT, v.³ Also flaught. Tr. and intr., to weave, intertwine, link (with), put together, lit. and fig.Edb. 1812 W. Glass Caled. Parnassus 39:
Sweet are the Stanley bushy braes, Where nuts on hazels flaught the slaes.Slk. a.1835 Hogg Poems (1871) 374:
When the gloaming had flaughted the night and the day.Ags. 1867 G. W. Donald Poems 22:
He flauchtit his stacks frae the stooks o' his neebours, An' laid in his crap by the licht o' the moon.Sc.(E) 1879 P. H. Waddell Isaiah ix. 11:
Syne sal the Lord steer up the warst frien's o' Retzin again him, an' sal flaught his ill-willers like ane.