tallet
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of tallet
Welsh taflod , from Late Latin tābulata flooring
Example Sentences
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Growing between the stones of the wall just by the tallet door is the plant I want to show you now.
From Wildflowers of the Farm by Cooke, Arthur Owens
And our Capt'n posted some on us at top of cellar steps and led the rest on us up the stairs to a kind o' tallet where thuck machine-gun was.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman
Now up in the tallet with ye, there’s a good boy, and down with another lock or two of hay—as fast as you can do it for me.’
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas
I lay down in the tallet at the farm atop o' the hay, and never woke all day yesterday.
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
"I was running home after Nora Dickson turned me out o' the tallet, and when I got up to 'em they was having words——" "Who were having words?"
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
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