Definitions from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:
Flake
(n.) A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
(n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(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.
(n.) A paling; a hurdle.
(n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
(v. t.) To form into flakes.
OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)
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