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Having a large chop; deep-mouthed: said of dogs. When a hound is fleet, faire flewd, and well hangd. Lilly, Mydas (ed. 1632), sig. X, xi. (Halliwell.) My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew. Shak., M. N. D., iv. 1.

As one of my girls said about herself: âMy little lonely heart had flewed away!â — The Lady of the Decoration
Toni climbed up to the bell, and then through the opening above it, and passed on to the stone platform. — The Circus of Adventure
They were curiously distinguished by the names of "deep-flewed," or "shallow-flewed," in proportion as they had the depending upper lip of the southern, or the sharper muzzle and more contracted lip of the northern dogs. — The Dog
The shallow-flewed were the swiftest, and the deep-flewed the stoutest and the surest, and their music the most pleasant. — The Dog
flewed (i.e. with large chaps)? — A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4