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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1856
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BACKFLAUGHT, adv. Flat on one's back. [′bɑk′flɑxt]Edb. 1856 J. Ballantine Poems 198:
He tells na how, outower the knowe, I laid him backflaught on the lea.
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