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Flake   /fleɪk/   Listen
noun
Flake  n.  
1.
A paling; a hurdle. (prov. Eng.)
2.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. "You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer."
3.
(Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.


Flake  n.  
1.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. "Lottle flakes of scurf." "Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat."
2.
A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. "With flakes of ruddy fire."
3.
(Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
4.
A person who behaves strangely; a flaky (2) person. (Colloq.)
Flake knife (Archaeol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone.
Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm.
Flake white. (Paint.)
(a)
The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales.
(b)
The trisnitrate of bismuth.


Flake  n.  A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable. "Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate."


verb
Flake  v. t.  (past & past part. flaked; pres. part. flaking)  To form into flakes.


Flake  v. i.  To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.





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"Flake" Quotes from Famous Books



... bright The stars of the night Than the eyes of the radiant girl! And never a flake That the vapour can make With the moon-tints of purple and pearl, Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl— Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... Dr. Denton gave the psychometrist a minute piece of the enamel of the tooth of a mastodon, which had been found thirty feet below the surface of the earth. The psychometrist had not the slightest knowledge of the character of the tiny flake of enamel handed her, but nevertheless reported: "My impression is that it is a part of some monstrous animal, probably part of a tooth. I feel like a perfect monster, with heavy legs, unwieldy head, and very large ...
— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi
... spoke, every man, as by a set ritual, took from a little skin wallet at his side a sharp flake of coral-stone, and, drawing it deliberately across his breast in a deep red gash, caused the blood to flow out freely over his chest and long grass waistband. Then, having done so, they never strove for a moment to stanch the wound, but let the red drops fall as they would on to the ...
— The Great Taboo • Grant Allen
... the fetich of the many-colored Wild Cat (Te-pi su-pa-no-pa), of the Upper regions, which is made of basaltic clay, stained black with pitch and pigment, and furnished with a flake of flint and a small fragment of chrysocolla, both of which are attached to the back of the figure with a binding ...
— Zuni Fetiches • Frank Hamilton Cushing
... 'Angel,' and the word has meaning in it as applied to her. She left her husband, and he got a divorce, but didn't charge anything wrong against her. That, I suppose, was more than he dared to do, for a snow-flake is not purer." ...
— After the Storm • T. S. Arthur


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