1. Headlong; precipitate.
c. 1375. ? Barbour, St. Barthol., 316. And bely-flawcht flede alsone.
1712–58. A. Ramsay, Poems (1844), 78. The bauld guid-wife … Came *bellyflaught.
1805. Nicoll, Poems, I. 31 (Jam.). Beath flew bellie-flaught I’ the pool.
2. To flay belly-flaught: i.e., by pulling the skin off entire over the head.
a. 1500. Priests of Peblis, 25 (Jam.). Thus fla they al the puir men belly flaught.
1774. Monro, Descr. Hebr., 47 (Jam.). Quhen they slay their sheepe, they fay them belly flaught.
