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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



... side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake They sink in the dark ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant
... said; "we have not seen a cloud, nor a drop of rain nor a flake of snow, nor a flash of lightning, nor heard ...
— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings
... After a long, earnest, anxious gaze, he came to the conclusion that it was a sail which shone, white and conspicuous, like a speck or a snow-flake on the horizon. ...
— Jarwin and Cuffy • R.M. Ballantyne
... are dark 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
... from this final vision of his dream. "Inconstancy is not justified by natural law, for it means unripeness of soul. The ripe soul evolves the Infinite from a fixed point. It finds the many in the one. Elvire is the one who includes the many. Elvire is the ocean: while Fifine is but the foam-flake which the ocean can multiply at pleasure. Elvire shall henceforth ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr


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