noun.
A paling; a hurdle.
noun.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
noun.
A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
noun.
A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
noun.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale.
noun.
A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
noun.
A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
noun.
a person who behaves strangely; a flaky{2} person.
noun.
a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone.
noun.
the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm.
noun.
The trisnitrate of bismuth.
intransitive verb.
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
transitive verb.
To form into flakes.