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flacket
[related to flake and Norwegian flak disk]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a stack of codfish so built as to shed rain.
See: faggot ((n.))
Quotations
1818
By degrees, the size of these flackets is increased, until . . . they assume the form of large circular stacks; and in this state the cod are left for a few days, so the fishermen say, "to sweat."
1840
At night they are piled above each other, with the backs uppermost, in heaps called fagots or flackets, which often accumulate until they resemble haystacks.