v. Obs. rare–1. A verb applied to one of the operations in preparing flax for spinning.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xcvii. (Tollemache MS.). It [flax] is knokked and bete, breyed and carfled [ed. 1495 carflyd], rodded and gnodded, ribbed and hecchelid.
