Flet

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Floor; bottom; lower surface. dialectal, rare
  2. 2
    forward line of enemy troops, front line US
  3. 3
    A house; home. dialectal, rare

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torbay sole

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FLOT

Etymology

From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.

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