"The Bobbsey Twins at Home" by Laura Lee Hopeĭrain off the juice from a can of salmon, and flake, picking out every fragment of bone and skin. He could also feel flakes of snow on his face. Keys to Republican Jeff Flake 's victory in the battle for Arizona's open US Senate seat. ifc.comįlake and his wife, Cheryl, live in Mesa, Ariz.
ifc.comįlake, who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2003, defeated Richard Carmona, a former US Surgeon General. MSNBC projected that Republican Representative Jeff Flake won the US Senate seat for Arizona in Tuesday's election. Kirkpatrick Returns To Congress, Obama Is Re-Elected, Flake Wins Senate Seat. Ĭhester Flake is running for a spot on the Jefferson County School Board in District 4. We will all find something to take away from Ms Flake 's realistic and memorable new work, "Pinned.". "Pinned," like many of Ms Flake 's earlier works, is set in an urban high school. Ĭharacters wrestle with real-life problems in Sharon Flake 's 'Pinned'. Ray Suarez talks to US Representative turned Senator-elect Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. "I'm on board with Bill," Flake - pastor of Greater Allen AME Church in Jamaica. įloyd Flake blessed Bill Thompson's campaign for mayor. Italian man-child Mario Balotelli flake with formidable talent. Kmart employee Sabrina Smith hands Debbie Flake her layaway purchases in the store's layaway department on Thursday morning. Quite a bit of it, though the precious metal was in flakes and not nuggets. Flakes are usually made so that they can be taken down and put up when required.Ī sort of flap fastened to a saddle to keep the rider's knee from contact with the horse.
#Flake definition series
It may consist of a series of horizontal hurdles at a convenient height from the ground, or of three-edged strips of wood nailed to frames resting on trestles or horses, with one edge uppermost so that the pickle may easily drain away. It keeps the fish clean, and allows a current of air to pass under them, so that they dry evenly. Nautical, a small stage hung over a ship's side, from which to calk or repair any breach.Ī platform for drying salted fish a fish-flake.
#Flake definition portable
To form or break into flakes: as, the frost flaked off the plaster.Ī hurdle or portable framework of wicker, boards, or bars, for fencing a fence a paling. To break or separate in flakes or layers peel or scale off: absolutely or with off. There are many localities where these chips or flakes (as the larger and more regular chips are sometimes designated), cores, broken tools, stone hammers, and other similar relics, are found heaped together in large quantities, indicating the abandoned sites of workshops.Īmong florists, any variety of carnation in which the petals are marked with stripes of one color upon a white ground. Flint and obsidian are the materials which, in consequence of their characteristically conchoidal fracture, can most readily be made to take a desired form by chipping or flaking but when these were not to be had, chert, jasper, quartz, and even rocks of various kinds, have been utilized in this way. As applied to chips or fragments detached from a mass of rock or mineral, flake often refers especially to such chips or fragments produced in the process of making stone weapons, especially in prehistoric times. To separate in flakes to peel or scale off.Ī small flat or scale-like particle or fragment of anything a thin fragment a scale: as, a flake of tallow a flake of flint a flake of snow.
(Bot) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(Naut) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. "You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer." "Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat."Ī person who behaves strangely a flaky person.Ī platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire a flash.Ī loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything a film flock lamina layer scale as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
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