flake

1. n. A paling; a hurdle. Source: opted

2. n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. Source: opted

3. n. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. n. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. Source: opted

6. n. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. Source: opted

7. v. t. To form into flakes. Source: opted

8. v. i. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off. Source: opted

9. n. a crystal of snow Source: wordnet

10. n. a person with an unusual or odd personality Source: wordnet

11. n. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole Source: wordnet

12. v. form into flakes Source: wordnet

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