Sc. Obs. [? f. flichter, FLIGHTER, in the unrecorded sense of ‘wing’; cf. pinion vb.] trans. To bind, pinion.
1680. in Wodrow, Hist. Suff. Ch. Scotl. (1722), II. III. iv. § 5. 141. Mount him on a bare-backed Horse, with his Face to the Horse’s Tail, and his Feet tied beneath his Belly, and his Hands flightered with Ropes; that the Executioner, with Head covered, and his Coat, lead his Horse up the Street to the Tolbooth.
1703. D. Williamson, Serm. bef. Gen. Assembly, 48. Many hardships they endured, that it cost some of them their Lives, and after a long times distress, they were driven back to Lothian all save two or three, tied and flightered like Thieves, and about 80 of them sent to America.
1768. A. Ross, Helenore, 1229.
| His legs they loos’d, but flighter’d held his hands, | |
| An’ lasht him hame before wi’ birken wands. |
