present participle of flake

Breaking or tending to break into flakes.

A piece of flaked material.

plural of flaking

simple past tense and past participle of flake

(of a person) unreliable or impractical

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything / A scale of a fish or similar animal / (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle. / A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

(UK) Dogfish. / (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.

To break or chip off in a flake. / (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. / (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers