Obs. Forms: 1 flá(a, 3 fla(a, 3–5 flo, (7 floe). Pl. 1 flán, (3 flan), 3–4 flon, (5 floon, flone). [OE. flá wk. fem.] An arrow.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., III. ix. § 14. Ðær wearð Alexander þurhscoten mid anre flan underneoþan oðer breost.
c. 1205. Lay., 1844. Heo letten gliden heora flan.
1297. R. Glouc. (1724), 304. And þat me ne myȝte noȝt yse bote harewen & flon.
c. 1305. St. Christopher, 207, in E. E. P. (1862), 65. Hi schote him to stronge deþe wiþ wel kene flo.
c. 1400. Gamelyn, 647.
| Whan thei were nighe hem þan seide þat one | |
| Yeldeth up ȝonge men ȝoure bowes and ȝoure flone. |
c. 1450. Robyn & Gandeleyn, v., in Child, Ballads, V. cxv. 12/2.
| Robyn bent his joly bowe, | |
| Þer in he set a flo. |
1623. Cockeram, Floe, an Arrow.
