Fruting for firstlings

• first-fruits: the fruits first gathered in a season; payment in the form of first crops of a season to a superior; annates, or one year's income of a benefice in England and Wales, paid to the Crown from 1535 to 1703 and thereafter to Queen Anne's Bounty → quainance bandy

• Jewish Day of First Fruits

• fluting: playing the flute → this paragraphy contains a musical foliation

• rooting

• frute: frog, toad

• firstling: the first of its kind to be produced, to come into being or to appear; the first product or result of anything