flatling

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Adverb

flatling (comparative more flatling, superlative most flatling)

Flatly, plainly.
In a flat position.
With the flat side (e.g. of a weapon).
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke, / In signe of true subjection to her powre […]

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