flete

1) A raft of timber floated on the river to its destination, perhaps a spelling of ‘float’ (OED).

It occurs in the fabric rolls for York Minster: 1419 In factura earumdem arborum in j flete cum cariagio usque Ebor. 16s 8d .

places York
dates 1419

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