a paling; a hurdle.-a platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.-a small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.-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.-a little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.-a sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.-to form into flakes.-to separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.