Flake
Definition of Flake
Pronunciation: flāk | n. | 1. | A paling; a hurdle. | | 2. | A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. | | 3. | (Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. | | 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. | | 2. | A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. | | 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. | | 1. | A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable. | | v. t. | 1. | To form into flakes. | | v. i. | 1. | To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off. |
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