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Definition of flank
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Flank (n.) The side of any
building.
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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..
Bastion
::
Bastion
(n.) A work
projecting
outward
from the main
inclosure
of a
fortification,
consisting
of two faces and two
flanks,
and so
constructed
that it is able to
defend
by a
flanking
fire the
adjacent
curtain,
or wall which
extends
from one
bastion
to
another.
Two
adjacent
bastions
are
connected
by the
curtain,
which joins the flank of one with the
adjacent
flank of the
other.
The
distance
between
the
flanks
of a
bastion
is
called
the
gorge.
A
lunette
is a
detached
bastion.
See
Ravelin..
Flank
::
Flank (v. i.) To be
posted
on the side.
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..
Scissorstail
::
Scissorstail
(n.) A
tyrant
flycatcher
(Milvulus
forficatus)
of the
Southern
United
States
and
Mexico,
which has a
deeply
forked
tail. It is light gray
above,
white
beneath,
salmon
on the
flanks,
and fiery red at the base of the crown
feathers..
Epaulement
::
Epaulement
(n.) A side work, made of
gabions,
fascines,
or bags,
filled
with
earth,
or of earth
heaped
up, to
afford
cover from the
flanking
fire of an
enemy..
Flanker
::
Flanker
(v. t.) To
defend
by
lateral
fortifications.
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..
Flank
::
Flank (n.) The side of any
building.
Flank
::
Flank (n.) 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..
Flanker
::
Flanker
(v. t.) To
attack
sideways.
Rand
::
Rand (n.) A long,
fleshy
piece,
as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of
steak..
Demigorge
::
Demigorge
(n.) Half the
gorge,
or
entrance
into a
bastion,
taken from the angle of the flank to the
center
of the
bastion..
Barde
::
Barde (n.) A piece of
defensive
(or,
sometimes,
ornamental)
armor for a
horse's
neck,
breast,
and
flanks;
a barb.
[Often
in the pl.].
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..
Lunette
::
Lunette
(n.) A
fieldwork
consisting
of two
faces,
forming
a
salient
angle,
and two
parallel
flanks.
See
Bastion..
Flank
::
Flank (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to
border
upon.
Flanked
::
Flanked
(imp. & p. p.) of Flan.
Syllable
::
Syllable
(n.) An
elementary
sound,
or a
combination
of
elementary
sounds,
uttered
together,
or with a
single
effort
or
impulse
of the
voice,
and
constituting
a word or a part of a word. In other
terms,
it is a vowel or a
diphtong,
either
by
itself
or
flanked
by one or more
consonants,
the whole
produced
by a
single
impulse
or
utterance.
One of the
liquids,
l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a
syllable.
Adjoining
syllables
in a word or
phrase
need not to be
marked
off by a
pause,
but only
Pylon
::
Pylon (n.) An
Egyptian
gateway
to a large
building
(with or
without
flanking
towers).
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