Sc. Also 5–9 flauchter, (6 -tir), 9 flachter. [prob. a parallel formation to FLAUGHT sb.1, with suffix -tro- instead of -tu-.] A paring of turf. Also Comb., flaughter-fail, a turf cut with a flaughter-spade, i.e., a breast-plough used for this purpose.
1492. Act. Dom. Conc. (1839), 288. Twa hingand lokis, a flauchter sped, a cruk, thre bukkis, a pare of tangis, a pet spaid, price x s.
a. 1550. Christis Kirke Gr., xxii.
| For faintness thae forfochtin fulis | |
| Fell doun lyk flauchtir fails; | |
| Fresh men cam in and hail’d the dulis, | |
| And dang them down in dails | |
| Bedeen that day. |
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 247, note. The spade for paring ought to be similar to that used in Scotland for casting Turf, provincially the Flaughter-spade.
1818. Edin. Mag., Oct., 331/1. A sufficient quantity of flauchter-fail was pared from the eastern side of a hill, with which all the windows, doors, and every aperture through the house, excepting the chimney, were built up.
1846. Brockett, Gloss. N. C. Words (ed. 3), Flaughter, the thin turf turned up when ground is pared.
