Also flither, flitter. A local name for the limpet.
1766. Pennant, Zool. (1769), III. 195. The next baits in esteem are small hadocks cut in pieces, sand worms, muscles, and limpets (called here [Scarborough] Flidders).
1867. M. S. Lovell, Edible Mollusks, 120. In the Isle of Man … they [limpets] are known by the name of ‘flitters.’
1876. Whitby Gloss., s.v. ‘He sticks like a flither.’
