"flake" Definition

Definitions for the word "flake" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A paling; a hurdle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To form into flakes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 small thin light piece of snow etc. 2 thin broad piece peeled or split off. 3 dogfish etc. As food. v. (-king) (often foll. By away, off) 1 take off or come away in flakes. 2 sprinkle with or fall in flakes. flake out colloq. Fall asleep or drop from exhaustion; faint. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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