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单词 flanker
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flankern.1

Brit. /ˈflaŋkə/, U.S. /ˈflæŋkər/
Forms: Also 1500s flancker, 1600s flankier.
Etymology: < flank v.1 +-er suffix1.
1. A fortification projecting so as to flank or defend another part, or to command the flank of an assailing enemy.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > works at side
flanker1550
flank1590
side work1633
flancard1767
1550–1 King Edward VI Jrnl. in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.) II. 307 Also for flankers at the kepe of Guisnes willed to be made.
1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva iii. vii. 167 The West gate, wherein were 4 Peeces of ordnance, and two in the Flanker.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 59 The Castle is seated towards the bottom of the Bay, commanding it every way from the Points and Flankiers.
1753 J. Bowdoin Let. 12 Nov. in B. Franklin Wks. (1840) VII. 78 (note) At each corner a flanker, in which is a couple of cannon.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xv. 150 Embattled high and proudly tower'd, Shaded by ponderous flankers.
2. A cannon posted so as to flank a position.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by position
flanker1575
barbette gun1872
1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 9 The flankers than, in murdring holes that laye Went of and slew, God knowes stoute men enow.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1810/2 Captayne Vaughan..entered the Ditches, and viewed the Flankers, wherevpon the Frenche shotte off the same Flankers.
3. One posted or stationed on either flank.
a. Military. One of a detachment of skirmishers thrown out on the flanks of an army when marching, to guard the line of march. Usually plural. [= French flanqueur.]
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by position > [noun] > on flank
flanker1587
flancard1767
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > member of flank-guard
flanker1587
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 159/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Setting out his flankers in seuerall places.
1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline lxi. 157 The Pikes being their flankers.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xx. 96 With a few flankers or rifle~men outside the whole.
1863 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 52 Their services as scouts and flankers proved invaluable.
b. in non-military uses.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant at hunt > one rousing game or beater
teisera1425
starter1607
shackatory1630
rouser1801
beater1845
flanker1893
1827 Lady Morgan O'Briens & O'Flahertys I. 219 Lady Honoria was still excluded..by a blockade of carriages, and her old flanker the Castleknock.
1893 Standard Dict., Flanker 2. In grouse-driving, one of the men walking on the flanks of the line of drivers, to keep the birds in the desired line of flight.
c. A trick, a swindle. slang (originally Military).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > instance or piece of
lurch1533
fool-finder1685
chouse1708
swindle1778
swindling1814
do1821
shave1834
steal1872
fiddle1874
diddle1885
ramp1888
tweedle1890
take-down1892
window dressing1892
gyp1898
bobol1907
flanker1923
hype1926
have-on1931
chizz1953
scam1963
rip-off1968
rip1971
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 124 Flanker..3. une échappatoire; he's done us a flanker, il nous a trompés, nous a attrapés, ou (rare) nous a échappé.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 282/1 Do a flanker..; work a flanker.
1962 Observer 27 May 3/8 An Army spokesman said: ‘..he has certainly pulled a flanker on the Army’.
1962 B. Knox Little Drops of Blood ii. 47 This bloke wasn't content wi' just fiddling the h.p. He'd been workin' another flanker.
d. = flank forward n. at flank n.1 Compounds 2. Also in American and Canadian football (see quot. 19612).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player
side tackle1809
nose guard1852
rusher1877
goalkicker1879
quarterback1879
runner1880
quarter1883
full back1884
left guard1884
snap-back1887
snapper-back1887
running back1891
tackle1891
defensive end1897
guard1897
interferer1897
receiver1897
defensive back1898
defensive tackle1900
safety man1901
ball carrier1902
defensive lineman1902
homebrew1903
offensive lineman1905
lineman1907
returner1911
signal caller1915
rover1916
interference1920
punt returner1926
pass rusher1928
tailback1930
safety1931
blocker1935
faker1938
scatback1946
linesman1947
flanker1953
platoon player1953
corner-back1955
pulling guard1955
split end1955
return man1957
slot-back1959
strong safety1959
wide receiver1960
line-backer1961
pocket passer1963
tight end1963
run blocker1967
wideout1967
blitzer1968
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
1953 H. Muller Tot Siens to Test Rugby 180 My first-choice flanker would be Des O'Brien.
1961 Auckland Weekly News 5 July 53/1 As a wingforward and later a flanker he will always be remembered.
1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 165 Flanker (football), an offensive end or back who lines up five or more yards wide of his own end.
1962 Times 12 June 3/5 Pask for J. Douglas as the blindside flanker in the pack.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 29/1 Of their 10 selections, seven were offensive ends or flankers.
1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 18/7 Waivers were asked on flanker Tom Bland and nobody picked him up.
4. Anything which flanks or adjoins laterally:
a. gen.
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. liv. 377 To make them [sc. citron-trees] a hoode and flankers of bay trees.
b. a side-wall of a courtyard; a wing of a building.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > something at the side
lateral1578
side piece1592
flanker1631
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > projecting subdivision
outshot1378
wing1523
limb1577
jambc1600
excursiona1626
return1625
flanker1631
pavilionc1676
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > side wall of
flanker1631
1631 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) 1st Ser. III. 102 He bwylding..an english howse..with 2 fflankers.
1823 W. Scott Let. 29 Oct. (1935) VIII. 112 The front of the house is now enclosed by a court-yard wall, with flankers of 100 feet.
c. a side-piece of timber.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > timber in pieces > side-piece
flanker1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Flanchere, A flanker, side peece, or flanking peece of timber, in building.
d. a side-piece of armour (see quot. 1659), = flancard n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > side-armour
flanker1659
society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] > for side
flancard1555
flanker1659
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Fiancari, flankers, or sidepieces for an armed man or barbed horse.
e. a footpath by the side of a highway, a side-walk.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > by side of street or road
plainstones1611
flanker1682
side pavement1685
footwalk1701
sideway1738
sidewalk1739
pavement1743
banquette1772
footpath1776
trottoir1789
walkway1792
parapet1795
causeway1796
flag-way1800
flags1801
pave1835
flagstone1840
flagging1851
walk1913
pedway1965
1682 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 25 The highway..pitched..the middle part with peebles, and the two collaterals or flankers with hard white stone.
f. one of the side horses in a three-horse vehicle.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls vehicle > team of three > member of
leader1699
pin-horse1877
flanker1879
pin1879
1879 O'Donovan in Daily News 16 Apr. 3/1 While the central animal is..running along a deep narrow cutting, the flankers are on the top of high banks on either side; or vice versa.
5. In cattle-branding operations: the man who throws each calf on its side to be branded. Cf. flank v.1 6d. U.S.
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1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 297 The flanker and assistants..call out ‘hot iron’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flankern.2

Brit. /ˈflaŋkə/, U.S. /ˈflæŋkər/
Etymology: < flanker v.2
(See quots.)
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > fire-spark
sparkc725
iselc1000
speldc1050
firebrandc1275
sprankc1300
sparklec1330
funka1393
sparklinga1529
fanglea1657
flanker1840
1840 P. H. Gosse Canad. Naturalist 11 They..throw out lighted fragments, ‘flankers’, as they are called.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Flanker, a spark of fire. West.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flankerv.1

Brit. /ˈflaŋkə/, U.S. /ˈflæŋkər/
Etymology: < flanker n.1; compare however Dutch flankeeren , < French flanquer to flank v.1
Obsolete exc. archaic.
1. transitive. To support or protect on the flanks; to defend or command from a flanker; to strengthen with flankers.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > defend on side or front
flank1596
flanker1598
vant-guard1600
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fortify [verb (transitive)] > fortify at side
flanker1598
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 96 At euery angle of the battell..a good squadron of Muskets..to flanker it euery way.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 191 He began his first peece of fortification, vpon a Rocke which flankers the Kings Castle.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xxi. 233 The ground..was flankerd from the Earles quarter by the Cannon.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 40 The City is compassed with a thick Stone Wall, flanker'd and moated about.
1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Flanker, to fortify the Walls of a City with Bulwarks or Countermures.
figurative.1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger ii. i. 433 The Philosopher also flanckers this intention of ours.1621 Earl of Cork in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. III. 18 This purchase will..secure and flanker yt [property] in tyme of trouble.
2. intransitive. To make an attack on the flank.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] > attack on flank
flanker1603
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 619 One of these great mounts he cast vp directly against the face of the towne, and the other at a corner of the same, to flanker alongst the wall.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 20 Where those sharp winds do rather flanker than blow fully opposite upon our plantations.

Derivatives

ˈflankered adj.
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society > armed hostility > defence > [adjective] > defended > defended on sides
flankered1860
1860 J. G. Whittier Truce of Piscataqua 18 The grim, flankered block-house, bound With bristling palisades.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flankerv.2

Etymology: < flank n.2 + -er suffix5; compare flacker v., flicker v.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To sparkle.
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1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 127 The fits of love And flanckring sparkes of Cupids fire.

Derivatives

ˈflankering adj.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > glittering or sparkling
sparkling?c1225
glising1340
glimmeringa1375
glistening1388
glistering1398
glitteringa1400
coruscantc1485
twinkling1508
flankering1577
fire-darting1594
glitterous1596
scintillant1611
winkinga1616
micant1657
scintillating1664
spangling1665
besparklinga1674
skinkling1790
spunky1791
micacious1797
glistery1806
spark-like1814
spangly1818
emicatious1819
sparky1827
aglitter1828
ablaze1851
aglist1858
scintillescent1860
aglisten1867
glittery1880
twinkly1884
sparkly1922
1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 49 By flanckeryng flame of firie love, to cinders men are worne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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