different between flyting vs flating

English

flyte +? -ing

flyting (plural flytings)

Contention, noisy argument.
Scolding, rebuke.
A poetic contest of insults or invective.
- 2007, Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26
  Rival poets in Scotland exchanged flytings that were packed with riddling conceits.
- 1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature
  These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.

flat +? -ing

flating (not comparable)

(obsolete) With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

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