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Fleaking vs Flecking - What's the difference?

fleaking | flecking |

As nouns the difference between fleaking and flecking

is that fleaking is (uk|dialect|obsolete) a light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses while flecking is a flecked pattern.

As a verb flecking is

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fleaking

English

Noun

(-)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
    • (Wright)
    (Webster 1913)

    flecking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flecked pattern.
  • * 1889 , Samuel Hubbard Scudder, ?William Morris Davis, ?Charles William Woodworth, The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada
    • Hind wings crossed by four parallel, nearly straight series of slender interrupted fleckings , subparallel to the outer margin