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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



... and the coast is bleak, And the storm is wild and fierce, Its frozen flake on the upturned cheek Of the Pilgrim melts in tears, And the dawn that springs from the darkness there Is the morning light ...
— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley
... forward, picked it up, and stood with it in his hand. He glanced at the wall, and saw at once that the nail to which the crucifix had been fastened had come out of its hole. A flake of plaster had been detached, perhaps some days ago, and the hole had become too large to retain the nail. The explanation of the matter was perfect, simple and comprehensible. Yet the priest felt as if a catastrophe had just taken place. As he stared ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens
... a flake of snow in the sunshine. "Oh! Azzolati. It was a most solemn affair. It had occurred to me to make a very elaborate toilet. It was most successful. Azzolati looked positively scared for a moment as though he had got into the ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... work and snatched the red and yellow ears bare of their frosty husks with marvelous dexterity. The first plunge over, Bradley found as usual that the sharpest pain was over. The wind cut his face, and an occasional driving flake of snow struck and clung to his face and stung. His coat collar chafed his chin, and the frost wet his gloves through and through. But he warmed to it and at last almost forgot it. He fell into thought again, so deep that his work became ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
... as he thought, some white larks on a down above my house this winter: were not these the Emberiza nivalis, the snow-flake of the Brit. Zool.? No ...
— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 • Gilbert White


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