flatling
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English flatling, flatlyng, flatlynge, (also as flatlynges), equivalent to flat + -ling.
Adverb
[edit]flatling (comparative more flatling, superlative most flatling)
- Flatly, plainly.
- In a flat position.
- With the flat side (e.g. of a weapon).
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke, / In signe of true subjection to her powre […]