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A paling; a hurdle. |
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A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or
interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other
things. |
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A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to
stand on in calking, etc. |
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A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a
film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or
fish. |
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A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted
from a fire; a flash. |
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A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the
petals having large stripes. |
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To form into flakes. |
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To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off. |