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  • English Word Flange Definition To be bent into a flange.
  • English Word Flanged Definition of Flange
  • English Word Flanged Definition Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.
  • English Word Flanging Definition of Flange
  • English Word Flank Definition The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
  • English Word Flank Definition The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
  • English Word Flank Definition That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.
  • English Word Flank Definition The side of any building.
  • English Word Flank Definition That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
  • English Word Flank Definition To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
  • English Word Flank Definition To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
  • English Word Flank Definition To border; to touch.
  • English Word Flank Definition To be posted on the side.
  • English Word Flanked Definition of Flank
  • English Word Flanker Definition One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
  • English Word Flanker Definition To defend by lateral fortifications.
  • English Word Flanker Definition To attack sideways.
  • English Word Flankered Definition of Flanker
  • English Word Flankering Definition of Flanker
  • English Word Flanking Definition of Flank
  • English Word Flannel Definition A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.
  • English Word Flanneled Definition Covered or wrapped in flannel.
  • English Word Flannen Definition Made or consisting of flannel.
  • English Word Flap Definition Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
  • English Word Flap Definition A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
  • English Word Flap Definition The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
  • English Word Flap Definition A disease in the lips of horses.
  • English Word Flap Definition To beat with a flap; to strike.
  • English Word Flap Definition To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
  • English Word Flap Definition To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.