flankn.¹

Brit.

/flaŋk/, U.S.

/flæŋk/

Forms: Old English flanc, Middle English–1600s flanke, (Middle English flaunke, flawnkke), 1500s–1600s flanck(e, Middle English– flank.

Etymology: < French flanc, = Provençal flanc, Italian fianco (Spanish flanco, Portuguese flanco, only in transferred senses, appears to be from French) < popular Latin *flancum. The ulterior etymology is disputed. The most probable hypothesis appears to be that it is adopted from the Germanic word which appears in Old High German hlancha, lanka, Middle Dutch lanke, early Middle English lonke; instances of Romanic fl- from Germanic hl- are believed to occur in some proper names, as French Floovent, medieval Latin Flodoardus. Diez regarded the word as a nasalized form of the Latin flaccus flaccid, comparing, for the development of sense, German weiche flank < weich soft; but no adjective *flancus is known in Latin or Romance.

I. As denoting a part of the body.

a. The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal or a man between the ribs and the hip.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun] > loin or flank

lendc975

flankOE

liskc1175

reinsa1382

leerc1386

loin1398

fillet?a1400

swange?a1400

luddocka1475

lunyie?a1513

lumb?1541

iliums1583

OE Prudentius Glosses (Cleo. C.viii) in Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 216/1 Ilia, flances.

c1330 Arth. & Merl. 9247 Schuldir and side and flaunke also.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 269 Þou muste ordeyne..fastnyngis tofore & bihinde & in hise flankis.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Pij^v The .x. place is in the flankes for the rupture.

1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 187 The poore jawde..Which hath no fleshe on his flancs.

1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. B3 Charge her home in the flank.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 110 The Hedge-hog hath his Back-sides and Flanks thick set with strong and sharp Prickles.

1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 127 Which made his horse's flanks to smoke.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 532 They [marking-irons] may have been employed to brand the flanks of colts and cattle.

b. A part of the same sold as thick flank or thin flank.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > side or flank

flitcha700

loinc1340

sidea1400

lunyie?a1513

coastc1540

flitchen1658

flank1747

tenderloin1828

short loin1866

lap1922

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 160 A Bullock..the Hind-Quarter..the Thin and Thick-flank.

1789 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) xiii. 277 Take a piece of thin flank of beef, and bone it.

c. in Arachnida and Crustacea: The pleura or side of the tergum and thorax.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > middle region or thorax > side of tergum and thorax

flank1835

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 202 The flancs (pleuræ)..have mutually approximated and become united..If the carapace is raised in a crab, the flancs or pleuræ are seen beneath.

†2. The belly; the womb. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun]

maweOE

wombOE

codc1275

cropc1325

gut1362

stomachc1374

bellyc1375

pauncha1393

flanka1398

heartc1400

kitchen?a1500

kytec1540

micklewame1566

craw1574

ventricle1574

pudding house1583

buck1607

wame1611

ventricule1677

ventriculus1710

victualling-office1751

breadbasket1753

haggis1757

haggis bagc1775

baggie1786

pechan1786

manyplies1787

middle piece1817

inner man1856

inner woman1857

tum-tum1864

tum1867

tummy1867

keg1887

stummick1888

kishke1902

shit-bag1902

Little Mary1903

puku1917

Maconochie1919

the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > womb

wombeOE

innethc888

bosom971

bitc1000

motherc1300

cloisterc1386

mawc1390

flanka1398

marisa1400

matricea1400

clausterc1400

mater?a1425

matrix?a1425

wamec1425

bellyc1440

oven?1510

bermother1527

child's bed1535

bairn-bedc1550

uterus1615

kelder1647

ventera1656

childbed1863

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1097 An olyphaunt haþ tyttes vnder þe breste, and þe mare in þe flanke bytween þe þyes byhynde.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 76 They bere them ii yere in their flankes.

3. In the Leather trade: That part of the hide or skin which covered the flank of the animal.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > parts of hide

womb1400

rim-side1474

neck1552

butt1568

bend1599

shoulder1858

flank1874

belly1880

flesh-split1897

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Flank 3. The thin portion of a skin of leather.

1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather i. i. 38 The parts of hides are called butts, backs, flanks, etc.

4. plural. (See quots.) [Compare French mal de flancs.]

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses

trench?a1450

colt-evilc1460

affreyd?1523

cholera1566

crick1566

incording1566

leprosy1566

taint1566

eyesore1576

fistula1576

wrench1578

birth1600

garrot1600

stithy1600

stifling1601

stranglings1601

hungry evil1607

pose1607

crest-fall1609

pompardy1627

felteric1639

quick-scab1639

shingles1639

clap1684

sudden taking1688

bunches1706

flanks1706

strangles1706

chest-founderingc1720

body-founder1737

influenza1792

foundering1802

horse-sickness1822

stag-evil1823

strangullion1830

shivering1847

dourine1864

swamp fever1870

African horse sickness1874

horse-pox1884

African horse disease1888

wind-stroke1890

thump1891

leucoencephalitis1909

western equine encephalitis1933

stachybotryotoxicosis1945

rhinopneumonitis1957

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Flanks (among Farriers) a Wrench, Crick, Stroke or other Grief in the Back of a Horse; also a kind of Pleurisy, proceeding from his being over-run with too much Blood.

1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Flanks in farriery, a wrench or any other grief in the back of a horse.

II. Transferred uses (with general sense ‘side’.)

5. gen. The side or lateral part of anything, e.g. of a building, a mountain, etc.

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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything

sideeOE

cheeka1400

coasta1400

wing?1482

flank1624

siding1627

broadside1632

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 17 When the Face of the Building is narrow, and the Flank deep.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 29 They [i.e. Pilasters] are commonly narrower in Flank, then in Front.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 128 So long, that mountains have arisen since With cities on their flanks.

1892 J. Woodward & G. Burnett Treat. Heraldry II. 687 Flanks (French flancs) the sides of the escucheon.

6. Military. The extreme left or right side of an army or body of men in military formation; a wing. †a flank (see also aflank adv.), in flank: at the side. to turn the flank (of an enemy): see turn n.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > wing or flank

wingc1400

horn1533

out-wingc1540

flank1548

point1550

sleeve1574

left1693

right1694

pivot flank1786

reverse flank1792

wheeling flank1796

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [adverb] > on the flank

a flank1548

in flank1600

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. I ij b The Master of the ordinaunce..did gall them with hailshot..and certeyn other gunners with there peces, a flanke, from our Rerewarde.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1309 Whilest he and his horsemen gaue the charge on the flanke of their battaille.

1600 in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. I. 33 He drew vpp that squadron..to chardge them in fflancke.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 570 He scarce Had ended; when to Right and Left the Front Divided, and to either Flank retir'd.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 69 Whoever offers to approach between these towers, is exposed to be taken in flank and slain.

1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Flank en potence is any part of the right or left wing formed at a right angle with the line.

1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 316 The enemy having it thus in their power to throw their whole force upon both flanks of this army.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. vii. 271 They..were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry.

7. Fortification. Any part of a work so disposed as to defend another by a flanking fire; esp. the part of a bastion reaching from the curtain to the face and defending the opposite face.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > works at side

flanker1550

flank1590

side work1633

flancard1767

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H3^v It must haue..store of ordinance that from euery flanke May scoure the outward curtaines of the Fort.

1672 J. Lacey tr. A. Tacquet Mil. Archit. iii. 4 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline ii The flanques of the Bulwork and Courtine.

1704 London Gaz. No. 4082/3 The Ditch is doubly Palisadoed, with very good Flanks within.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Flank of the Courtine or Second Flank, is that part of the Courtine, between the Flank, and the Point where the Fichant Line of Defence ends.

1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) at Fortification Flanks of the Bastion are the parts between the faces and the curtain.

1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea III. iv. 39 At the flanks of the bastions.

8. In other technical uses:

a. Architecture. (See quot. 1874).

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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 876/1 Flank (Architecture) the haunch of an arch; the shoulder between the crown and the springing.

b. Mechanics. (See quot. 1842).

ΚΠ

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Flank, the straight part of the tooth of a wheel which receives the impulse.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

flank-piece n.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of

sueta1325

oxblood?1440

fix-faxc1460

ox-head1474

nache?1523

ox-hoof1601

ox-pith1604

flank-piece1611

ox-eye1688

web1778

razorback1844

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Soubspoictrine, the flanke-peece, or bottome of the brisket of an Oxe, &c.

b. (senses 6, 7.)

flank attack n.

flank company n.

flank defence n.

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1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 142 If the church is not built on a plan favourable to flank defence.

flank file n.

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1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Flank-files are the two first men on the right and the two last men on the left, telling downwards from the right.

flank fire n.

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1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 331 Be prepared, particularly with your flank fire every morning.

flank guard n.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > flank-guard

flank guard1901

1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 305 Here they are spotted by the self~constituted British flank-guard.

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 234 Flank guard, a detachment detailed to cover the flank of a column marching past, or across the front of an enemy.

1930 Nation 6 Dec. 327/2 To Hutchinson..the Shelleyans are indebted for the fullest one-volume edition, and the Elians for the best cheap substitute for, or flankguard to, Mr. Lucas's Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.

flank march n.

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1866 E. B. Hamley Operat. War vi. 404 Thus Bulow's march to the field of Waterloo was a flank march.

flank movement n.

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1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 53 In the flank movements of ranks by three's, or by two's.

flank officer n.

flank-wise adv.

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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlv. 148 He pursued them, and charged them flank-wise.

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. 279 Battalions of infantry which..Mentschikoff had been moving flankwise.

C2.

flank angle n. Mechanics (see quot. 1954).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > screw > thread > parts of thread

root1865

lead1905

crest1916

flank angle1951

1951 Engineering 21 Sept. 369/3 A screw thread has..seven elements of shape and size: major diameter, minor diameter, effective diameter, pitch, flank angles, [etc.].

1954 Defs. for Use in Mech. Engin. (B.S.I.) 17 Flank angles, the angles between the individual flanks and the perpendicular to the axis of the thread measured in an axial plane section.

flank-bone n. the ilium or haunch-bone.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > innominate bone > ilium

lend-bonec1000

side bone1565

flank-bone1668

ilium1706

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. xvi. 351 Os Innominatum..which some term..the Flank~bone.

flank forward n. Rugby (originally South African) a wing forward; so flank, used absol.,

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > player or position

full back1875

goal kick1875

No. eight1876

goalkicker1879

three-quarter back1880

handler1888

three-quarter1889

heeler1892

scrum half1894

lock forward1898

standoff1902

five-eighth1905

hooker1905

threes1905

flying half1906

loose head1907

standoff1908

fly-half1918

fly1921

inside half1921

outside half1921

scrum1921

inside centre1936

flank forward1937

out-half1949

prop1950

prop forward1951

number eight1952

flanker1953

tight head1959

back-rower1969

second rower1969

striker1973

packman1992

1937 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 10 Apr. 18/2 Of the flank or back rankers Strachan cannot be left out.]

1937 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 25 June 22/1 Van der Berg will probably be one of the flank forwards.

1956 V. Jenkins Lions Rampant i. 19 Scotland's Greenwood, at flank-forward, saw to it that his country's honour was not besmirched.

1960 E. S. Higham & W. J. Higham High Speed Rugby p. xx We have adopted the name ‘flank’ instead of the more common ‘wing forward’ as being less likely to cause confusion between wing forward and wing three-quarter.

1960 E. S. Higham & W. J. Higham High Speed Rugby xii. 154 The Flanks (wing forwards): These are the open play specialists.

flank-wall n. a side wall.

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1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 27 If the House had stood by it self..then we might have had light to the Stairs from the Flank Wall.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIV Flank~walls, in Engineery, are the same with wing or return-walls of a lock or bridge.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

flankn.²

Brit.

/flaŋk/, U.S.

/flæŋk/

Forms: Middle English flaunke, 1500s flanke, 1800s dialect vlank.

Etymology: Compare flake n.², of which this may be a nasalized form; Swedish has (snö) flanka a snowflake.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

= flake n.² 2.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > a detached portion of flame

flawc1325

flakec1400

flankc1400

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 954 Felle flaunkes of fyr & flakes of soufre.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 148/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II His companie..carried vpon the ends of their poles flankes of fier.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The vlanks was blowin all over the place.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flankv.¹

Brit.

/flaŋk/, U.S.

/flæŋk/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s flanck(e, flanke, (1600s flanque).

Etymology: < flank n.¹ Compare French flanquer.

†1. intransitive. To shoot on the flank or sideways; to deliver a raking fire. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate artillery [verb (intransitive)] > discharge artillery > fire on flank

flank1548

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. N vij Loopholes as well for shooting directly foorthward as for flankyng at hand.

2. transitive. To guard, protect, strengthen, or defend on the flank.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > defend on side or front

flank1596

flanker1598

vant-guard1600

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xi. sig. L3^v A brasen wall, Which mote the feebled Britons strongly flancke Against the Picts.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 70 Some do vse to flanke the two sides of the battell with sleeues of shot.

1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres Gen. Inventorie Hist. France (1611) 464 The Brittons horse that flanked the armie, growes amazed, and leaues the foote naked.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 34 A Castle..flanckt with Ordnance.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 215 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Walls are very broad, and flank'd with Towers.

1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 xxvi. 7 Our perfum'd prey..flanck'd with Rocks did close in covert..lay.

1704 Hymn Vict. lx This Wing the Woods may flank, the Castle that.

a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) ii. 123 A strong intrenchment, flanked with bastions.

a1837 H. T. Colebrooke in Life (1873) 409 The parts of the wall do not well flank each other.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 385 It was flanked throughout its length by towers at equal distances of two hundred feet.

figurative.1680 J. Scott Serm. before Artillery-company 2 We cannot..Flank and Rear our Discourses with Military Allusions.1757 Monitor No. 100. ⁋8 Ambitious men flank and fortify one crime with another.1884 Christian World 25 Dec. 995/1 Flanking himself with an apt quotation from the Psalms.absolute.1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes App. 11 Fortified with a gallant Parrapet well flanking.1672 J. Lacey tr. A. Tacquet Mil. Archit. iii. 4 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline ii Each part of the Fortification..must flanque and be flanqued.

a. To menace or attack the flank of; to take in flank. Of artillery: To fire sideways upon, to rake.

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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > attack on flank or rear

flank1572

rear1670

back-set1722

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard > fire on flank of

flank1572

1572 W. Malim tr. N. Martinengo True Rep. Famagosta f. 4^v Flancking and scouring all the ditch with their Harquebussie.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. 564 Beaten back affront, beset behind, flanked on the sides..and environned round.

1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough III. 40 The Enemy had, from hence, very much flank'd the Right of the Approaches.

a1757 P. H. Bruce Memoirs (1782) i. 29 One of our own guns..unhappily missing that object, the ball flanked our own trenches.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. i. 85 An advanced angle..with shot-holes for flanking the door-way.

absolute.1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 70 To leave no enemy in the rear to march after, and so to flank or offend.

†b. To place (artillery, a battery) on the flank, for either attack or defence. Obsolete. rare.

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flank1653

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures v. 12 They had moored up the Galley, and by it raised up a platform, whereupon they had flanked 25 Pieces of Ordnance.

a. To take up or be posted in a position at the flank of; to be placed or situated on either side of. Also passive, to be flanked by or with: to have situated or stationed on the flanks or sides.

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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > have on the sides

to be flanked by or with1651

the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > be in or take up position at the side of

cheeka1552

side1600

flank1779

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert iii. ii. xvi Prostrate Meads, With Forrests flanck'd, where shade to darkness grew.

a1748 C. Pitt Ep. to Mr. Spence 34 Where stately colonades are flank'd with trees.

1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. xxiv. 188 A well made road..flanked on each side by very high hills.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xv. 129 These viands being flanked by a bottle of spirits and a pot of porter.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 23 High mountains flanked us on either side.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iv. 231 A mountain, flanked by real precipices.

†b. intransitive. To occupy a flank position, border on or upon. Obsolete.

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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > be at the side or adjoin at the side [verb (intransitive)]

flank1604

side1609

1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 192 Ten others [embrasures]..flanke vppon the approches.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 417 That Side which flanks on the Sea and Haven needs no Art to fortify it.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Flank, v. i. to be posted on the side.

a. transitive. To march past or go round the flank of; in quot. 1893 transferred.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > pass round

round1743

flank1893

bypass1928

detour1941

1893 Westm. Gaz. 22 Dec. 2/3 Did they flank the snow and go round to the right, or did they bring the whole avalanche down on top of them?

b. U.S. slang. To dodge, etc., (in various applications) (see quots.).

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1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 32 They flanked me in double quick and..I was constrained to depart..for fear of being a desolated victim of extortion.

1867 J. M. Crawford Mosby & his Men 295 They would lead the horses out, take the greenbacks from the prisoners, and when near their home would flank out with a horse, and never come up, [etc.].

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms v. 286 The term to flank, which, from the strategy of the generals, descended in the mouth of privates to very lowly..meanings. When the men wished to escape the attention of pickets and guards by slipping past them, they said they flanked them; drill and detail and every irksome duty was flanked, when it could be avoided by some cunning trick. Soon..the poor farmer was flanked out of his pig and his poultry.

1875 Fur, Fin & Feather 105 They will be surprised to see how..everblowing breezes of the prairie will ‘flank’ debility and hydra-headed dispepsia.

1879 Southern Hist. Soc. 7 394 The Government never made anything by employing these ‘rebels’, as they invariably ‘flanked’ more than they received as pay.

6. In various nonce-uses.

a. To strike on the flank or side.

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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 501 As the said wind may flanke it on the side.

b. Of a ship: to present the flank or broadside to (a gale).

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1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) iii.117 For, this assault should either quarter feel, Again to flank the tempest she might reel.

c. to flank down: to bring down upon the flanks or hips.

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1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 277 Flanking down his Arms, close to his Ribs, hoping to save his Body.

d. To throw (an animal) on its side to be branded (see quot.). U.S.

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1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 207 ‘Flanking’ consists in seizing the animal by the skin of the flank opposite the cowboy... When the animal jumps with all four feet off the ground the cowboy by a jerk throws it on its side.

7. To trim (pork) on the flank. U.S.

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1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 639 Mess Pork..shall be packed from sides of well fatted hogs, cut into strips..and flanked according to diagram.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flankv.²

Brit.

/flaŋk/, U.S.

/flæŋk/

Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare flick, spank.

transitive. To whip with a light, sudden stroke, to flick; also, to crack (a whip).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [verb (transitive)] > crack or snap > a whip

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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something pliant > lightly

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1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iii. 49 He then, taking up the driving-whip, flanked a fly from the opposite wall.

1833 Anglo-sapphic Ode in C. Whibley In Cap & Gown 136 Kicks up a row, gets drunk or flanks a tandem-Whip out of window.

1861 A. J. Penny Romance Dull Life vii. 52 He still eased his feelings by flanking everything in the room with a very dusty pocket-handkerchief.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹OE

n.²c1400

v.¹1548

v.²1830

单词	flank
释义	flankn.¹ Brit. /flaŋk/, U.S. /flæŋk/ Forms: Old English flanc, Middle English–1600s flanke, (Middle English flaunke, flawnkke), 1500s–1600s flanck(e, Middle English– flank. Etymology: < French flanc, = Provençal flanc, Italian fianco (Spanish flanco, Portuguese flanco, only in transferred senses, appears to be from French) < popular Latin flancum. The ulterior etymology is disputed. The most probable hypothesis appears to be that it is adopted from the Germanic word which appears in Old High German hlancha, lanka, Middle Dutch lanke, early Middle English lonke; instances of Romanic fl-* from Germanic hl- are believed to occur in some proper names, as French Floovent, medieval Latin Flodoardus. Diez regarded the word as a nasalized form of the Latin flaccus flaccid, comparing, for the development of sense, German weiche flank < weich soft; but no adjective flancus is known in Latin or Romance. I. As denoting a part of the body. 1. a. The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal or a man between the ribs and the hip. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun] > loin or flank lendc975 flankOE liskc1175 reinsa1382 leerc1386 loin1398 fillet?a1400 swange?a1400 luddocka1475 lunyie?a1513 lumb?1541 iliums1583 OE Prudentius Glosses* (Cleo. C.viii) in Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 216/1 Ilia, flances. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 9247 Schuldir and side and flaunke also. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 269 Þou muste ordeyne..fastnyngis tofore & bihinde & in hise flankis. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Pij^v The .x. place is in the flankes for the rupture. 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 187 The poore jawde..Which hath no fleshe on his flancs. 1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. B3 Charge her home in the flank. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 110 The Hedge-hog hath his Back-sides and Flanks thick set with strong and sharp Prickles. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 127 Which made his horse's flanks to smoke. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 532 They [marking-irons] may have been employed to brand the flanks of colts and cattle. b. A part of the same sold as thick flank or thin flank. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > side or flank flitcha700 loinc1340 sidea1400 lunyie?a1513 coastc1540 flitchen1658 flank1747 tenderloin1828 short loin1866 lap1922 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 160 A Bullock..the Hind-Quarter..the Thin and Thick-flank. 1789 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) xiii. 277 Take a piece of thin flank of beef, and bone it. c. in Arachnida and Crustacea: The pleura or side of the tergum and thorax. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > middle region or thorax > side of tergum and thorax flank1835 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 202 The flancs (pleuræ)..have mutually approximated and become united..If the carapace is raised in a crab, the flancs or pleuræ are seen beneath. †2. The belly; the womb. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun] maweOE wombOE codc1275 cropc1325 gut1362 stomachc1374 bellyc1375 pauncha1393 flanka1398 heartc1400 kitchen?a1500 kytec1540 micklewame1566 craw1574 ventricle1574 pudding house1583 buck1607 wame1611 ventricule1677 ventriculus1710 victualling-office1751 breadbasket1753 haggis1757 haggis bagc1775 baggie1786 pechan1786 manyplies1787 middle piece1817 inner man1856 inner woman1857 tum-tum1864 tum1867 tummy1867 keg1887 stummick1888 kishke1902 shit-bag1902 Little Mary1903 puku1917 Maconochie1919 the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > womb wombeOE innethc888 bosom971 bitc1000 motherc1300 cloisterc1386 mawc1390 flanka1398 marisa1400 matricea1400 clausterc1400 mater?a1425 matrix?a1425 wamec1425 bellyc1440 oven?1510 bermother1527 child's bed1535 bairn-bedc1550 uterus1615 kelder1647 ventera1656 childbed1863 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1097 An olyphaunt haþ tyttes vnder þe breste, and þe mare in þe flanke bytween þe þyes byhynde. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 76 They bere them ii yere in their flankes. 3. In the Leather trade: That part of the hide or skin which covered the flank of the animal. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > parts of hide womb1400 rim-side1474 neck1552 butt1568 bend1599 shoulder1858 flank1874 belly1880 flesh-split1897 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Flank 3. The thin portion of a skin of leather. 1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather i. i. 38 The parts of hides are called butts, backs, flanks, etc. 4. plural. (See quots.) [Compare French mal de flancs.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses trench?a1450 colt-evilc1460 affreyd?1523 cholera1566 crick1566 incording1566 leprosy1566 taint1566 eyesore1576 fistula1576 wrench1578 birth1600 garrot1600 stithy1600 stifling1601 stranglings1601 hungry evil1607 pose1607 crest-fall1609 pompardy1627 felteric1639 quick-scab1639 shingles1639 clap1684 sudden taking1688 bunches1706 flanks1706 strangles1706 chest-founderingc1720 body-founder1737 influenza1792 foundering1802 horse-sickness1822 stag-evil1823 strangullion1830 shivering1847 dourine1864 swamp fever1870 African horse sickness1874 horse-pox1884 African horse disease1888 wind-stroke1890 thump1891 leucoencephalitis1909 western equine encephalitis1933 stachybotryotoxicosis1945 rhinopneumonitis1957 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Flanks (among Farriers) a Wrench, Crick, Stroke or other Grief in the Back of a Horse; also a kind of Pleurisy, proceeding from his being over-run with too much Blood. 1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Flanks in farriery, a wrench or any other grief in the back of a horse. II. Transferred uses (with general sense ‘side’.) 5. gen. The side or lateral part of anything, e.g. of a building, a mountain, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything sideeOE cheeka1400 coasta1400 wing?1482 flank1624 siding1627 broadside1632 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 17 When the Face of the Building is narrow, and the Flank deep. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 29 They [i.e. Pilasters] are commonly narrower in Flank, then in Front. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 128 So long, that mountains have arisen since With cities on their flanks. 1892 J. Woodward & G. Burnett Treat. Heraldry II. 687 Flanks (French flancs) the sides of the escucheon. 6. Military. The extreme left or right side of an army or body of men in military formation; a wing. †a flank (see also aflank adv.), in flank: at the side. to turn the flank (of an enemy): see turn n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > wing or flank wingc1400 horn1533 out-wingc1540 flank1548 point1550 sleeve1574 left1693 right1694 pivot flank1786 reverse flank1792 wheeling flank1796 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [adverb] > on the flank a flank1548 in flank1600 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. I ij b The Master of the ordinaunce..did gall them with hailshot..and certeyn other gunners with there peces, a flanke, from our Rerewarde. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1309 Whilest he and his horsemen gaue the charge on the flanke of their battaille. 1600 in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. I. 33 He drew vpp that squadron..to chardge them in fflancke. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 570 He scarce Had ended; when to Right and Left the Front Divided, and to either Flank retir'd. View more context for this quotation 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 69 Whoever offers to approach between these towers, is exposed to be taken in flank and slain. 1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Flank en potence is any part of the right or left wing formed at a right angle with the line. 1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 316 The enemy having it thus in their power to throw their whole force upon both flanks of this army. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. vii. 271 They..were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry. 7. Fortification. Any part of a work so disposed as to defend another by a flanking fire; esp. the part of a bastion reaching from the curtain to the face and defending the opposite face. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > works at side flanker1550 flank1590 side work1633 flancard1767 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H3^v It must haue..store of ordinance that from euery flanke May scoure the outward curtaines of the Fort. 1672 J. Lacey tr. A. Tacquet Mil. Archit. iii. 4 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline ii The flanques of the Bulwork and Courtine. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4082/3 The Ditch is doubly Palisadoed, with very good Flanks within. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Flank of the Courtine or Second Flank, is that part of the Courtine, between the Flank, and the Point where the Fichant Line of Defence ends. 1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) at Fortification Flanks of the Bastion are the parts between the faces and the curtain. 1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea III. iv. 39 At the flanks of the bastions. 8. In other technical uses: a. Architecture. (See quot. 1874). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 876/1 Flank (Architecture) the haunch of an arch; the shoulder between the crown and the springing. b. Mechanics. (See quot. 1842). ΚΠ 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Flank, the straight part of the tooth of a wheel which receives the impulse. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. flank-piece n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of sueta1325 oxblood?1440 fix-faxc1460 ox-head1474 nache?1523 ox-hoof1601 ox-pith1604 flank-piece1611 ox-eye1688 web1778 razorback1844 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Soubspoictrine, the flanke-peece, or bottome of the brisket of an Oxe, &c. b. (senses 6, 7.) flank attack n. flank company n. flank defence n. ΚΠ 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 142 If the church is not built on a plan favourable to flank defence. flank file n. ΚΠ 1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Flank-files are the two first men on the right and the two last men on the left, telling downwards from the right. flank fire n. ΚΠ 1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 331 Be prepared, particularly with your flank fire every morning. flank guard n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > flank-guard flank guard1901 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 305 Here they are spotted by the self~constituted British flank-guard. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 234 Flank guard, a detachment detailed to cover the flank of a column marching past, or across the front of an enemy. 1930 Nation 6 Dec. 327/2 To Hutchinson..the Shelleyans are indebted for the fullest one-volume edition, and the Elians for the best cheap substitute for, or flankguard to, Mr. Lucas's Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. flank march n. ΚΠ 1866 E. B. Hamley Operat. War vi. 404 Thus Bulow's march to the field of Waterloo was a flank march. flank movement n. ΚΠ 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 53 In the flank movements of ranks by three's, or by two's. flank officer n. c. flank-wise adv. ΚΠ 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlv. 148 He pursued them, and charged them flank-wise. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. 279 Battalions of infantry which..Mentschikoff had been moving flankwise. C2. flank angle n. Mechanics (see quot. 1954). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > screw > thread > parts of thread root1865 lead1905 crest1916 flank angle1951 1951 Engineering 21 Sept. 369/3 A screw thread has..seven elements of shape and size: major diameter, minor diameter, effective diameter, pitch, flank angles, [etc.]. 1954 Defs. for Use in Mech. Engin. (B.S.I.) 17 Flank angles, the angles between the individual flanks and the perpendicular to the axis of the thread measured in an axial plane section. flank-bone n. the ilium or haunch-bone. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > innominate bone > ilium lend-bonec1000 side bone1565 flank-bone1668 ilium1706 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. xvi. 351 Os Innominatum..which some term..the Flank~bone. flank forward n. Rugby (originally South African) a wing forward; so flank, used absol., ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > player or position full back1875 goal kick1875 No. eight1876 goalkicker1879 three-quarter back1880 handler1888 three-quarter1889 heeler1892 scrum half1894 lock forward1898 standoff1902 five-eighth1905 hooker1905 threes1905 flying half1906 loose head1907 standoff1908 fly-half1918 fly1921 inside half1921 outside half1921 scrum1921 inside centre1936 flank forward1937 out-half1949 prop1950 prop forward1951 number eight1952 flanker1953 tight head1959 back-rower1969 second rower1969 striker1973 packman1992 1937 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 10 Apr. 18/2 Of the flank or back rankers Strachan cannot be left out.] 1937 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 25 June 22/1 Van der Berg will probably be one of the flank forwards. 1956 V. Jenkins Lions Rampant i. 19 Scotland's Greenwood, at flank-forward, saw to it that his country's honour was not besmirched. 1960 E. S. Higham & W. J. Higham High Speed Rugby p. xx We have adopted the name ‘flank’ instead of the more common ‘wing forward’ as being less likely to cause confusion between wing forward and wing three-quarter. 1960 E. S. Higham & W. J. Higham High Speed Rugby xii. 154 The Flanks (wing forwards): These are the open play specialists. flank-wall n. a side wall. ΚΠ 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 27 If the House had stood by it self..then we might have had light to the Stairs from the Flank Wall. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIV Flank~walls, in Engineery, are the same with wing or return-walls of a lock or bridge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). flankn.² Brit. /flaŋk/, U.S. /flæŋk/ Forms: Middle English flaunke, 1500s flanke, 1800s dialect vlank. Etymology: Compare flake n.², of which this may be a nasalized form; Swedish has (snö) flanka a snowflake. Obsolete exc. dialect. = flake n.² 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > a detached portion of flame flawc1325 flakec1400 flankc1400 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 954 Felle flaunkes of fyr & flakes of soufre. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 148/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II His companie..carried vpon the ends of their poles flankes of fier. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The vlanks was blowin all over the place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flankv.¹ Brit. /flaŋk/, U.S. /flæŋk/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s flanck(e, flanke, (1600s flanque). Etymology: < flank n.¹ Compare French flanquer. †1. intransitive. To shoot on the flank or sideways; to deliver a raking fire. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate artillery [verb (intransitive)] > discharge artillery > fire on flank flank1548 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. N vij Loopholes as well for shooting directly foorthward as for flankyng at hand. 2. transitive. To guard, protect, strengthen, or defend on the flank. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > defend on side or front flank1596 flanker1598 vant-guard1600 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xi. sig. L3^v A brasen wall, Which mote the feebled Britons strongly flancke Against the Picts. View more context for this quotation 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 70 Some do vse to flanke the two sides of the battell with sleeues of shot. 1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres Gen. Inventorie Hist. France (1611) 464 The Brittons horse that flanked the armie, growes amazed, and leaues the foote naked. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 34 A Castle..flanckt with Ordnance. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 215 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Walls are very broad, and flank'd with Towers. 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 xxvi. 7 Our perfum'd prey..flanck'd with Rocks did close in covert..lay. 1704 Hymn Vict. lx This Wing the Woods may flank, the Castle that. a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) ii. 123 A strong intrenchment, flanked with bastions. a1837 H. T. Colebrooke in Life (1873) 409 The parts of the wall do not well flank each other. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 385 It was flanked throughout its length by towers at equal distances of two hundred feet. figurative.1680 J. Scott Serm. before Artillery-company 2 We cannot..Flank and Rear our Discourses with Military Allusions.1757 Monitor No. 100. ⁋8 Ambitious men flank and fortify one crime with another.1884 Christian World 25 Dec. 995/1 Flanking himself with an apt quotation from the Psalms.absolute.1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes App. 11 Fortified with a gallant Parrapet well flanking.1672 J. Lacey tr. A. Tacquet Mil. Archit. iii. 4 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline ii Each part of the Fortification..must flanque and be flanqued. 3. a. To menace or attack the flank of; to take in flank. Of artillery: To fire sideways upon, to rake. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > attack on flank or rear flank1572 rear1670 back-set1722 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard > fire on flank of flank1572 1572 W. Malim tr. N. Martinengo True Rep. Famagosta f. 4^v Flancking and scouring all the ditch with their Harquebussie. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. 564 Beaten back affront, beset behind, flanked on the sides..and environned round. 1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough III. 40 The Enemy had, from hence, very much flank'd the Right of the Approaches. a1757 P. H. Bruce Memoirs (1782) i. 29 One of our own guns..unhappily missing that object, the ball flanked our own trenches. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. i. 85 An advanced angle..with shot-holes for flanking the door-way. absolute.1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 70 To leave no enemy in the rear to march after, and so to flank or offend. †b. To place (artillery, a battery) on the flank, for either attack or defence. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > mount > on flank flank1653 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures v. 12 They had moored up the Galley, and by it raised up a platform, whereupon they had flanked 25 Pieces of Ordnance. 4. a. To take up or be posted in a position at the flank of; to be placed or situated on either side of. Also passive, to be flanked by or with: to have situated or stationed on the flanks or sides. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > have on the sides to be flanked by or with1651 the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > be in or take up position at the side of cheeka1552 side1600 flank1779 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert iii. ii. xvi Prostrate Meads, With Forrests flanck'd, where shade to darkness grew. a1748 C. Pitt Ep. to Mr. Spence 34 Where stately colonades are flank'd with trees. 1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. xxiv. 188 A well made road..flanked on each side by very high hills. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xv. 129 These viands being flanked by a bottle of spirits and a pot of porter. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 23 High mountains flanked us on either side. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iv. 231 A mountain, flanked by real precipices. †b. intransitive. To occupy a flank position, border on or upon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > be at the side or adjoin at the side [verb (intransitive)] flank1604 side1609 1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 192 Ten others [embrasures]..flanke vppon the approches. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 417 That Side which flanks on the Sea and Haven needs no Art to fortify it. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Flank, v. i. to be posted on the side. 5. a. transitive. To march past or go round the flank of; in quot. 1893 transferred. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > pass round round1743 flank1893 bypass1928 detour1941 1893 Westm. Gaz. 22 Dec. 2/3 Did they flank the snow and go round to the right, or did they bring the whole avalanche down on top of them? b. U.S. slang. To dodge, etc., (in various applications) (see quots.). ΚΠ 1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 32 They flanked me in double quick and..I was constrained to depart..for fear of being a desolated victim of extortion. 1867 J. M. Crawford Mosby & his Men 295 They would lead the horses out, take the greenbacks from the prisoners, and when near their home would flank out with a horse, and never come up, [etc.]. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms v. 286 The term to flank, which, from the strategy of the generals, descended in the mouth of privates to very lowly..meanings. When the men wished to escape the attention of pickets and guards by slipping past them, they said they flanked them; drill and detail and every irksome duty was flanked, when it could be avoided by some cunning trick. Soon..the poor farmer was flanked out of his pig and his poultry. 1875 Fur, Fin & Feather 105 They will be surprised to see how..everblowing breezes of the prairie will ‘flank’ debility and hydra-headed dispepsia. 1879 Southern Hist. Soc. 7 394 The Government never made anything by employing these ‘rebels’, as they invariably ‘flanked’ more than they received as pay. 6. In various nonce-uses. a. To strike on the flank or side. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 501 As the said wind may flanke it on the side. b. Of a ship: to present the flank or broadside to (a gale). ΚΠ 1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) iii.117 For, this assault should either quarter feel, Again to flank the tempest she might reel. c. to flank down: to bring down upon the flanks or hips. ΚΠ 1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 277 Flanking down his Arms, close to his Ribs, hoping to save his Body. d. To throw (an animal) on its side to be branded (see quot.). U.S. ΚΠ 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 207 ‘Flanking’ consists in seizing the animal by the skin of the flank opposite the cowboy... When the animal jumps with all four feet off the ground the cowboy by a jerk throws it on its side. 7. To trim (pork) on the flank. U.S. ΚΠ 1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 639 Mess Pork..shall be packed from sides of well fatted hogs, cut into strips..and flanked according to diagram. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flankv.² Brit. /flaŋk/, U.S. /flæŋk/ Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare flick, spank. transitive. To whip with a light, sudden stroke, to flick; also, to crack (a whip). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [verb (transitive)] > crack or snap > a whip yarka1566 slash1660 smack1699 flank1830 spank1835 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something pliant > lightly flank1830 flick1839 flip1861 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iii. 49 He then, taking up the driving-whip, flanked a fly from the opposite wall. 1833 Anglo-sapphic Ode in C. Whibley In Cap & Gown 136 Kicks up a row, gets drunk or flanks a tandem-Whip out of window. 1861 A. J. Penny Romance Dull Life vii. 52 He still eased his feelings by flanking everything in the room with a very dusty pocket-handkerchief. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹OEn.²c1400v.¹1548v.²1830
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