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flankered

flankered is the simple past and past participle of flanker.

Meaning of flanker

Verb

flanker (third-person singular simple present flankers, present participle flankering, simple past and past participle flankered)

  1. (obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.
    • the Castle was neither ſo weakly mann'd nor flanker'd as they were made belive1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) To attack sideways.
    • […] to my observation in our Climates, where those sharp winds do rather flanker than blow fully opposite upon our Plantations, they thrive best […]1670, John Evelyn, Sylva or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions, London, Chapter 3, “Of the Oak,” p. 19

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Questions about flankered

What is flankered the simple past and past participle of?
Flankered is the simple past and past participle of flanker.

Words near flankered in the dictionary

  1. flanked
  2. flanken
  3. flanker
  4. flankerback
  5. flankerbacks
  6. flankered
  7. flankering
  8. flankers
  9. flanking
  10. flanks
  11. flankwise

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