1 gen 1689 anni - fleak

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A hurdle, often made of wattles. The OED headword is ‘flake’ but ‘fleke’ and its alternatives are the usual Yorkshire spellings. 1360 <i>pro flekes emptis pro skaffald</i>, York (SS35/2); 1456-7 <i>pro ij flekes emptis de Ric. Pott, xd</i>, Fountains Abbey (130/25); 1628 <i>certeyne skeps and</i> [sic] <i>old fleake and a henkall</i>, Pudsey (LRS1/76). They were regularly used as temporary gates and fences: 1678 <i>We lay in payne that James Greeneald sett two stoopes … at the top stile … and do keepe theire a yate or fleicke duringe the time that the corne is leading out of the upper field</i>, Kirkheaton (WBM); 1684 <i>making of gates and fleakes</i>, Tong (Mss3/372). Such hurdles were evidently of a regular size, for the word was sometimes used as a measure: 1640 <i>one halfe land, beinge more than halfe a fleake brode … in the Kyrkefeilde</i>, Ouseburn (MD38). It is not uncommon therefore as an element in minor place-names: 1585 <i>Leafleake</i>, Idle (PNWR3/234); 1623 <i>Christopher Sike close called Fleikcliffe</i>, Lepton (WBM). It was used also of shelves and racks and the inference may be that not all these had solid frames: 1570 <i>One paire of wayne fleycks price xxd</i>, Hutton Conyers (SS26/229); 1656 <i>for unjustly taking away</i> <i>a pair of wayne fleaks</i>, Thornton Bridge (NRQS5/234); 1689 <i>2 Shelves and a bread fleake</i>, Barnoldswick (YRS118/72). Bread fleik remained in common use into the 1950s at least; it was the creel on which ‘havercakes’ were hung to dry.

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