Meanings
- alternativeobsoleteLancashireAlternative form of bread-fleigh.
When I asked a villager whether Gamershaw Boggart was ever seen now, he said, "Naw; we never see'n no baggarts neaw; nobbut when th' brade-sleigh's empty!"
1857, Edwub Waugh, Lancaster Sketches, page 792 more examples
Joe and I found seated by the fire, blowing clouds of tobacco smoke towards the brade sleigh over his head, whereon were hung the wafer-like ovals of oaten cakes;
1898 October 26, J.Marshall Mather, “Factory Idylls”, in North-western Christian Advocate, volume 46, page 15he also made bread- or "brade- fleighs" (the latter syllable with a guttaral sound), to hang horizontally under the kitchen ceiling — rectangular wooden frames several feet square, with cross-bars of wood or cord, on which might be placed the oat-cake bread to dry and harden;
1980, Roger Elbourne, Music and Tradition in Early Industrial Lancashire, 1780-1840, page 127
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