Sc. Obs. [f. FIRE sb. + ME. slaht, OE. sleaht stroke, blow: see SLAUGHT.] A flash of fire or lightning; lightning.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1769 (Cott.).

        Fire slaght fell wit thoner and rain,
Þe erth quok and dind again.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, Laurentius, 15.

        Alsa it has vertu & maucht
Fore to resyst agane fyre-slacht.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 60. The fyir slaucht vil consume the vyne.

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1872.  W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d, 24.

        And aye as jaip and jest he brak
On Papistrie and her vile pack,
As thunder on the fire-slacht’s back.

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