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