meaning of flake
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. A small stage hung over a vessels side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
4. 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.
5. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
6. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
7. To form into flakes.
8. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
9. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the
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Related Words
flake | flake off | flake out | flaked | flakey |
