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Webster 1913 Edition

(flēk)

Noun.

A flake; a thread or twist.

[Obs.]

Little long

fleaks

or threads of hemp.

Dr. H. More.

, A lock. [See Flake.]

fleak ‎(plural fleaks)

a flake; a thread or twist
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
  "... that all the businesses of Men do very much depend upon these little long fleaks or threds of Hemp and Flax."