Sc. and north. dial. [f. next.] A fright; also in to get, take (a) fley. Cf. FLEG sb.1

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1804.  Tarras, Poems, 70.

        I watna bit [but] I’ve gotten a fley,
  I gatna sic anither,
Sin Maggie flait the haukit quey,
  An’ reeve her o’ the tether,
            Yon luckless night!

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1813.  D. Anderson, Poems, 80 (Jam.). But bauldly then shook off their flay. Ibid., 121. Timorous fowk tak flay.

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1892.  Northumbld. Gloss., Flay, a fright.

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