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  1. flankering: Wiktionary
  2. Flankering: Dictionary.com
  3. Flankering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  4. Flankering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  5. flankering: FreeDictionary.org

(Note: See flanker as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flanker)

noun:  (rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
noun:  (American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
noun:  (military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
noun:  (archaeology) One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
verb:  (obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.
verb:  (obsolete) To attack sideways.
▸ Also see flanker


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