Sc. Also flourice, fleurish. (Flint and) steel.
1825. Jamieson, Suppl., Flourice.
1871. W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb, xi. 81. Some half dozen of the male parishioners (usually elderly ones, familiar with the dwellers in the kirktown, and who cared not to carry ‘fleerish and flint’ in their ‘Sunday claes’) had availed themselves of ‘a het sod’ to light their pipes.
1880. Shirley, Crookit Meg, xxii., in Fraser’s Mag., May, 651. A piece of tinder is ignited with the old-fashioned ‘flint and fleerish,’ and presently the brushwood is in a blaze.
1892. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 486. In Buchan the steel was called the fleurish or fleerish.
