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flat a
Cpd, comb: flat boat, ~ punt: small boat
with flat bottom; FLAT n.
[1819] 1915 HOWLEY 180 They lived in a
hut outside our door until Peyton gave them their liberty and furnished them with a small
flat boat for the summer. P 148-75 Everyone built his own trapboat or rodney or flat
punt, jack or dory as the case may be.
flatform, also
frafferm* [phonetics unavailable]: (a) a raised wooden structure at the door of a
house; BRIDGE; (b) a teacher's dais.
1896 J A Folklore ix,
27 Platform ... is known or coming into use [for bridge] but they generally pronounce it
flatform. T 172-65 So we had a rumpus one day [in school], an' I was chasing
somebody round this flatform. T 181-65 But we didn't mind seein' the [teacher's] cane
comin' down from the flatform, firin' at you. T 203/4-65 Somebody'd make a desk for her
or perhaps a table, an' she'd sit up there on a little higher flatform built up. P 229-67
Sweep the snow off the flatform.
flatjack: pancake;
turnover; flapjack.
T 96-642 This is the one, the
flatjacks. You'd roll out the flour and put dried apples or apricots between
'em—jam, then turn 'em over. 1973 GOUDIE 49 We only had a camp stove. I had to make
flat cakes of flour and salt and baking powder... One day I said to Jim, 'I am tired of
eating flat cakes.' Jim called them flat jacks.
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