Definition of "flaughter" [flaughter]

• A flat spade used in peat cutting. (noun)

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• "But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Prtorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words --- ` ` Prtorium here, Prtorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade. ''"
• "We scaled together the steep granitic hill immediately over the town, and then cut on the stack, straight as the bird flies, across a trackless common, bare and stony, and miserably pared by the _flaughter_ spade."
• "Other traits may have been suggested by John Clerk of Eldin, whose grandfather was the hero of the story "Praetorian here, Praetorian there, I made it wi 'a flaughter spade.""