Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Flite

Flite , intransitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon flītan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to German fleiss industry.]

To scold; to quarrel. [Provincial English] — Grose

Flite , noun

[Anglo-Saxon flīt. See Flite.]

Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obsolete or Scottish & Provincial English]
The bird of Pallas has also a good “flyte” on the moral side... in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands. — Saintsbury

Also: Flyte