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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Flay, v. [e.m.E. flay, flaye (16th c.).] = Fla v. 2. Also flayings, turf stripped off. — 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 177.
In casting of any faill ... on the said mwre and flaying of the same 1667 Peebles B. Rec. II. 76.
The magistrattes … inflictes [a fine] upon James Haldine … for casting and flaying most pairt of the green 1677 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 130.
They cast all the flayeings of the banks and deid earth all in the ground of the pot in great heaps