flankers

Noun

flanker (plural flankers)

1. A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
2. A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
3. A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
   • About two hours...they had been about the house before they prevailed to fire it (which they did with Flax and Hemp, which they brought out of the Barn, and there being no defence about the House, only two Flankers at two opposite corners and one of them not finished) they fired it once and one...1675, The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, from The Portable Native American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 312
4. One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
5. A usually lower-end brand or product introduced in order to target competitors and protect a company's main market share.

   Synonyms:

   fighter, flanker brand, fighter brand

6. (perfumery) Newly created perfume that shares some attributes of an already existing perfume.

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