flank

Definitions

1. 1noun

   The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

2. 2noun

   The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.

3. 3noun

   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.

4. 4noun

   The side of any building.

5. 5noun

   That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

6. 6transitive verb

   To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.

7. 7transitive verb

   To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.

8. 8intransitive verb

   To border; to touch.

9. 9intransitive verb

   To be posted on the side.

10. 10noun

    the side between ribs and hipbone

11. 11noun

    a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg

12. 12noun

    the side of military or naval formation

    "they attacked the enemy's right flank"

    Synonyms

    wing
13. 13noun

    a subfigure consisting of a side of something

14. 14verb

    be located at the sides of something or somebody