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Flank
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- 1 Maximum. Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack. US, not-comparable
"All ahead flank!"
- 1 The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip.
"Holonym: side"
- 2 the side between ribs and hipbone wordnet
- 3 A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
- 4 a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg wordnet
- 5 The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
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- 6 the side of military or naval formation wordnet
- 7 The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
- 8 a subfigure consisting of a side of something wordnet
- 9 The side of something, in general senses.
"Cautiously I approached the flank of the cliffs, where they terminated in an abrupt escarpment as though some all powerful hand had broken off a great section of rock and set it upon the surface of the earth."
- 10 Either of the two pockets located on the seat of a pair of pants.
"I took the quarter I found and hid in my right flank."
- 11 An ideological faction within a political party.
"Ford survived a primary challenge in 1976 from the right flank of the Republican Party by Ronald Reagan."
- 12 The outermost strip of a road.
- 13 The wing, one side of the pitch.
"The hosts also had Paul Robinson to thank for a string of saves, three of them coming against Jerome Thomas, who gave Michel Salgado a torrid time down the left flank."
- 14 That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
- 1 To attack the flank(s) of. transitive
- 2 be located at the sides of something or somebody wordnet
- 3 To defend the flank(s) of. transitive
- 4 To place to the side(s) of. transitive
"Stately colonnades are flank'd with trees."
- 5 To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side). intransitive
Etymology
From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.
From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.
From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.
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