Flake

·noun A paling; a hurdle.

II. Flake ·vt To form into flakes.

III. Flake ·vi To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

IV. Flake ·add. ·noun A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.

V. Flake ·noun A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, ·etc.

VI. Flake ·noun A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.

VII. Flake ·noun A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

VIII. Flake ·noun A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

IX. Flake ·noun 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.