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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses.

[Prov. Eng.]

Wright.

fleaking ‎(uncountable)

(Britain, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
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