| n. | 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. | (Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. |
| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. |
| 3. | (Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. |
| 4. | a person who behaves strangely; a flaky{2} person. |
| 1. | A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable. |
| v. t. | 1. | To form into flakes. |
| v. i. | 1. | To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off. |