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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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FLANE, n. Also flain. An arrow. Arch.Sc. 1728 Ramsay Poems 131:
The Thane of Fife, wha lately wi' his Flane, And Vizy leel, made the Blyth Bowl his ain.Abd. 1739 J. Skinner Amusements (1809) 45:
Leitch lent the ba' a loundrin lick, She flew fast like a flain.Bwk. 1823 A. Hewit Poems 118:
But death let flee his venom'd flane, An' nail'd him dead.Gall. 1832 Capt. J. Denniston Battle of Craignilder 72:
The sturdy archers plied their bows, And flanes fell thick as winter snows.Edb. 1916 T. W. Paterson Wyse-Sayin's vii. 32:
He gangs efter her at the meenit Till a sherp flane dings through him.Sc. 1999 J. Derrick McClure in Moira Burgess and Donny O'Rourke New Writing Scotland 17: Friends and Kangaroos 79:
I gied ye immortality -
tae me, whit wes 't ye gied?
Nocht ava but the stangin
flanes o your bonnieheid.