flatling

[flat-ling]

adverb

British Dialect.

1. in a flat position; with the flat side, as of a sword.

2. flatly or positively.

adjective

1. Obsolete.,  dealt with the flat side.

flatling

/ ˈflætlɪŋ /

adverb

1. in a flat or prostrate position

adjective

1. Also (for adv): flatlings. with the flat side, as of a sword

Word History and Origins

Origin of flatling¹

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; flat ¹, -ling ²

Example Sentences

The Bank of England, meanwhile, indicated that it remained some way from giving the UK's flatling economy additional help to create jobs.

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Farewell, Romance!" the Lake-folk sighed; "We lift the weight of flatling years; The caverns of the mountain side Hold him who scorns our hutted piers.

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So rising vp we marched toward them, who espying vs, foorthwith some hundred of them with their iauelings in their hands came running towards vs as though they would haue run vs thorow: howbeit they onely strooke vs flatling with their weapons, and said that we were Spaniards: and we tolde them that we were Englishmen: which they would not beleeue yet.

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Farewell, Romance!" the Lake-folk sighed; "We lift the weight of flatling years; The caverns of the mountain-side Hold him who scorns our hutted piers.

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But at the last this knight smote Sir Mador grovelling upon the earth, and the knight stepped near him to have pulled Sir Mador flatling upon the ground; and therewith suddenly Sir Mador arose, and in his rising he smote that knight through the thick of the thighs that the blood ran out fiercely.

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