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flacket [related to flake and Norwegian flak disk] 
n. a stack of codfish so built as to shed rain.
See also: faggot ((n.))
- 1818 By degrees, the size of these flackets is increased, until . . . they assume the form of large circular stacks; and in this state the cod are left for a few days, so the fishermen say, "to sweat."
- 1840 (1860) At night they are piled above each other, with the backs uppermost, in heaps called fagots or flackets, which often accumulate until they resemble haystacks.
- 1818 By degrees, the size of these flackets is increased, until . . . they assume the form of large circular stacks; and in this state the cod are left for a few days, so the fishermen say, "to sweat."