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bread-fleigh en · NOUN
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(obsolete, qualifier:Lancashire) Synonym of bread flake.
he also made bread- or "brade- fleighs" (the latter syllable with a guttaral sound), to hang horizontally under the kitchen ceiling — rectangular wooden frames several feet square, with cross-bars of wood or cord, on which might be placed the oat-cake bread to dry and harden;
1980, Roger Elbourne, Music and Tradition in Early Industrial Lancashire, 1780-1840, page 127:
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Synonyms
bread flake