noun
Meaning 1
Floor; bottom; lower surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, rare
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flet
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noun
Meaning 2
A house; home.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, rare
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noun
Meaning 3
forward line of enemy troops, front line
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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History
Etymology
From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth2- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.