Word Meaning

flake definition and meaning

n. A paling; a hurdle.
n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
n. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
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.
n. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
n. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
v. t. To form into flakes.
v. i. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

Crossword clues for flake

- Angle in fake snow drop
- Cut away
- Fragment of snow
- Ice crystal
- Particles of snow
- Peel (of paint)
- Peel (of skin)
- Shark meat, as food
- Snow particle
- Wear away