flake
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1. flake - Noun
2. flake - Verb
3. Flake - Proper noun
Meaning
A paling; a hurdle.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
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.
A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
To form into flakes.
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
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a bit of rock caught him in the eye
The paint in my house is peeling off
The substances started to flake
A flake staple is usually sufficient, but for best color and health supplement with frozen and live foods when possible. citation Clownfish A false percula Clownfish, more technically known as Anemonefish, are the classic aquarium fish.
A high-quality flake graphite product that closely resembles natural flake graphite can be made from steelmaking kish.
After spending considerable time this past week marveling at the great Redwoods that come from a small seed (a Sequoia tree begins as a seed the size of a single flake of oatmeal), I found a selection from another ancient mystic all the more meaningful.