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Flanker v. t. (past & past part. flankered; pres. part. flankering)

To defend by lateral fortifications. (Obs.)

To attack sideways. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Flanker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flanker" Quotes from Famous Books

... south down the Chester Pike, directing Corporal Baker to follow this road south and to tell Davis to follow the high ridge west of the road, going through the clump of woods just ahead. I would send one man as a left flanker to follow the west bank of Sandy Creek. This would leave me with two men, one watching for signals from the front and along Sandy Creek, the other from Davis and from the rear. I would expect to see a patrol from the company moving across towards Boling Woods. Had I not been mixed ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... because, except on the sea-shore, the people lived by farming. Such as were able to do so fenced their dwellings with palisades, or built them of solid timber, with loopholes, a projecting upper story like a blockhouse, and sometimes a flanker at one or more of the corners. In the more considerable settlements, the largest of these fortified houses was occupied, in time of danger, by armed men, and served as a place of refuge for the neighbors. The palisaded house defended ...

— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman

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