tallet
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of tallet
Welsh taflod , from Late Latin tābulata flooring
Example Sentences
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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 Thomas Hardy
The wall of the tallet is of stone and is very old; the roof is tiled.
From Wildflowers of the Farm by Arthur Owens Cooke
That, like the garden, is above the foldyard; from it there are only two or three steps to the door of the loft or "tallet" above the stables.
From Wildflowers of the Farm by Arthur Owens Cooke
I lay down in the tallet at the farm atop o' the hay, and never woke all day yesterday.
From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood
"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 Mrs. Henry Wood
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