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English
Etymology
From alternation of the original flatling, by assimilating to long. More at flatling.
Adverb
flatlong (not comparable)
- (obsolete) With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Antonio: What a blow was there given!
Sebastian: An it had not fall'n flat-long.
a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:Yet the pittiless sword had such pity of so precious an object, that at first it did but hit flatlong
Translations
with the flat side downward
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