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Flanker :: Flanker (n.) 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..

Flank :: Flank (v. i.) To border; to touch.

Yak :: Yak (n.) A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc..

Surfaced :: Surface (n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion..

Demibastion :: Demibastion (n.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank..

Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..

Flank :: Flank (v. t.) 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..

Flankered :: Flankered (imp. & p. p.) of Flanke.

Demigorge :: Demigorge (n.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion..

Stifled :: Stifle (n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion..

Flank :: Flank (n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef..

Flank :: Flank (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.

Refuse :: Refuse (v. t.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks..

Pan :: Pan (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

Rubican :: Rubican (a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses..

Redoubt :: Redoubt (n.) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory..

Orillon :: Orillon (n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses..

Elbow :: Elbow (n.) A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back..

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