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• a variation of flite.

flyte

American  

[flahyt] / flaɪt /

verb (used without object)

flyted, flyting

1. a variant of flite.

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flyte British  

/ flaɪt, fləɪt /

verb

1. a variant spelling of flite

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Example Sentences

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flyte flyted flyting

O child of Adam let not hope make mock and flyte at thee vi.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

O Bell, why dost thou flyte and scorne?

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

Now this was mair than Hugh could stan’ Frae Tam to get the wite, And getting vent, he burst on Tam, Then baith began to flyte.

From Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago by Alexander Dick

O Bell, why dost thou flyte and scorn?

From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley

"Have you not better word than that?" she would flyte at him at the second cry; and if the bird would crow the three times, she would be lavish with the feeding and grow cheerful.

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

Father was very angry when he came, and said he'd take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott

Father was very angry when he came, and said he’d take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it. 

From Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Ae day he was flyting wi' anither sodger-lad.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

There's a frown on the brow o' the Urie, and his face is hidden from me, and listen to the grumbling and flyting o' the burn.

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

There was never a fair word in flyting.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy

She was talking to herself, and "flyting on" the patient cows, who now stood chewing the cuds of their breakfast.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

So whiles the men flyting the fallow street there With their mares were they meting.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

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