flatling

adv — 3 senses

adv

Etymology From Middle English flatling, flatlyng, flatlynge, (also as flatlynges), equivalent to flat + -ling.

Flatly, plainly.

In a flat position.

With the flat side (e.g. of a weapon).

Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke, / In signe of true subjection to her powre […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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