bread-fleigh

English

Noun

bread-fleigh

1. (Lancashire, obsolete) Synonym of bread flake
   • 1980, Roger Elbourne, Music and Tradition in Early Industrial Lancashire, 1780-1840, page 127:

     he also made bread- or "brade- fleighs" (the latter syllable with a guttaral sound), to hang horizontally under the kitchen ceiling — rectangular wooden frames several feet square, with cross-bars of wood or cord, on which might be placed the oat-cake bread to dry and harden;

Alternate forms

• brade-fleigh