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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..

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

Knot :: Knot (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne..

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..

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..

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

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

Flankering :: Flankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flanke.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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