refleue (c.1365)
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refleue (c.1365)

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[gdw]

  FEW:  fluere *3,642a / refluere *10,192a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  reflow n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  refluus 2706b / refluvium 2706c
reflewe  

The context is not clear, and the expression may be intended in a more figurative way, i.e. ‘in the to-and-fro-ing’.

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dedens la flue et la refleue
1geog.marit.on the foreshore, between low and high water marks (?): 
( c.1365 )  Et s'il avient q'un homme mehayne ung autre dedens la fleue et la refleue (var. (V: s.xv1) deins le flewe et reflewe), et de ce soit attaint qu’il estoit commenceur du contake, il sera mys en prison tant qu’il fut gree au mehayné  54
flue#1  reflot  refluer 
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