flake

flake has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A paling; a hurdle.
• n.. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
• n.. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
• n.. 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.
• n.. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
• n.. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• v. t.. To form into flakes.
• v. i.. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
• n.. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
• n.. a person with an unusual or odd personality
• n.. a crystal of snow
• v.. come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"