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Quotation dates: 1512, 1598-1699
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(Sole-fluke,) Soill-fluk, n. Also: sol(l)- and -flu(i)ck, -flwcke, -flouk(e, -flook, -fleuk. [Sole n.2 and Fluke n.1] Only Sc. = Sole n.2 a sole, the fish.Usu. as two words. 1512 Household Bk. Jas. IV 16a.
For ane soill fluk vi d. 1512 Household Bk. Jas. IV 17a.
Soll fluk 1598 Household Bks. Jas. VI 1/3 June.
Soill fluik 1598 Household Bks. Jas. VI and Anne 7 June.
Soll fluik a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 11.
Solea, a sole flook 1663–6 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 46.
For a sole flook and dresing 1665 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp in Misc. Maitl. C. II 527.
Sole fluicks 1671 Sc. Hist. Rev. LXI 148.
For ane solflwcke, 2 s. 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii 24.
Solea, the sole-fleuk 1684 Symson Descr. Galloway 43.
By this meanes they catch fleuks, solefleuks, turbets and severall other fish 1687 Sc. Ant. VIII 156.
For hereing and soll flucks to denner 2 s. 6 d. a1688 Wallace Orkney 17, 18.
In the sea they catch ling, keeling haddok, … sole fleuks 16… Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 190.
Oysters, sole-floukes, turbot-fleuk, eels
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