subs. (common).—See SHOOTING THE MOON (q.v.). Also LONDON-FLITTING.
1819. A. BALFOUR, Campbell; or, the Scottish Probationer, ii. xix. He made, what is termed, a MOON-LIGHT FLITTTNG.
1892. Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 28 Sept., p. 26, col. 3. He had done what is known in Lancashire as a MOONLEET FLIT, or, in other words, removed quietly in the dead of night, that nobody knew where he had gone.
