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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Flet, Flett, n. Also: flitt. [ME. flett(e, OE. flett-, flet, ON. flet.]

1. The inner part of a house. 14.. Acts I. 25/1.
Uxor eius … interiorem partem domus que dicitur le flet tenebit [tr. the inner halfe of the hous that is callyt the flett] c1450-2 Howlat 830.
The fulis fonde in the flet a1500 Henr. Fab. 1822.
The carle pullit the lyne, … Syne swyngillit it weill, and hekkillit in the flet c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 242.
Rank beggar, … foule fleggar in the flet 1533 Boece xiv. xi. 561 b.
Nocht … ane proper hous nor flett, quhilk sum tyme thai had a1598 Ferg. Prov. (1641) 3 b.
A fair fire makes a roome flet

2. Fire and flet, fire and house-room. 1565 Digest Justiciary Proc. F. 5.
He wes burges of the brughe of Coupper and actuall dueller thairintill haifand fyre and flett within the samin 1566 St. A. Kirk S. 271.
The said Jonat … of the parrochyn of Disart … havand fyir and flet wythin the samyn Ib.
Fyir and flet … kepit wythin this cite be Jonat 1580 Inverness B. Rec. I. 287.
Johne Waus … to be bunding and obleist to hald fyre and flett, stob and staik, and to mak actuall habitatioun and residence within this burcht 1596 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 133.
That all burgessis … hauld stob and stack, fyre and flett, within the burght quhair thay ar frie