flighted
Meaning of flighted
- (in soccer, cricket, etc.) deliver (a ball) with well-judged trajectory and pace.
he flighted a free kick into the box
- provide (an arrow or dart) with feathers or vanes.
shafts of wood flighted with a handful of feathers
- shoot (wildfowl) in flight.
duck and geese flighting
Old English flyht ‘action or manner of flying’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlucht and fly1. This was probably merged in Middle English with an unrecorded Old English word related to German Flucht and to flee, which is represented by sense 3 of the noun.
Information about flighted
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of flighted
flighted
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- flighted is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with flighted
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