Obs. [The examples of 16–17th c. prob. echo Henryson; possibly the copy in Chaucer’s Wks., 1561, may be correct in reading fasshe, a. OF. fais or faisse bundle, sheaf.] A bundle or sheaf (of arrows).

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c. 1450.  Henryson, Test. Cres., 167, in Poems & Fables (1865), 81. Undir his girdill ane flasche of felloun flanis.

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1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, XI. xxviii. 201.

        Her ratling quiuer at her shoulders hong,
Therein a flash of arrowes feathered weele,
In her left hand her bow was bended strong,
Therein a shaft headed with mortall steele.

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1671.  Skinner, Etym. Ling. Angl., IV., Flash of flames [read flaines], expl. a Sheaf of Arrowes.

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1678–1706.  Phillips, Flash of Flames (old word), a Sheaf of Arrows.

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