- (v.t.) To attack sideways.
- (v.t.) To defend by lateral fortifications.
- (n.) One who or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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