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Flank :: Flank (n.) The side of any building.

Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc..

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.].

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..

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

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..

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

Overwing :: Overwing (v. t.) To outflank.

Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet..

Flanker :: Flanker (v. t.) To attack sideways.

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

Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.

Conversion :: Conversion (n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank..

Flank :: Flank (v. i.) To be posted on the side.

Wich :: Wich (n.) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players..

Flanker :: Flanker (v. t.) To defend by lateral fortifications.

Flanking :: Flanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flan.

Pylon :: Pylon (n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway..

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..

Flanked :: Flanked (imp. & p. p.) of Flan.

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