aflat

a- +‎ flat

• IPA^(key): /əˈflæt/

aflat (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Level with the ground; lying flat.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “V. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     When you would have many new roots of fruit trees , take a low tree and bow it , and lay all its branches aflat upon the ground , and cast earth upon them

• “aflat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• fatal

aflat (past participle of afla)

1. past participle of afla