Flake

1. A paling; a hurdle.
2. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
3. 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.
4. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
5. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
6. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
7. To form into flakes.
8. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.