English Dictionary

flake

IPA（発音記号）

/fleɪk/

名詞

イギリス英語 方言 別表記 異形

(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.

日本語の意味

小枝や棒を組んで作られた柵や仕切り。特に、支柱で支えられて魚（たとえばタラなどの干物）を干すための構造物として用いられるもの。

The children hid behind the flake during their game of hide-and-seek.

子供たちはかくれんぼの間、柵の後ろに隠れていた。

意味（1）

(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.

意味（2）

A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.

意味（3）

(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.

意味（4）

(nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)

Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate to splice his own on to.

flakes （ plural ）