(flāk) noun
1. A small flat fragment or loosely cohering mass; a thin piece or chip of anything; scale; fleck.
2. A carnation having stripes of any single color on a white ground.
3. A gleam of light; flash.
4. Naut. The flat coil of a stowed cable; a fake.
—adjective Anthropol. Denoting that form of Paleolithic stone implement shaped from the thin flakes chipped off the core of a large lump.
—v.t. & v.i. flaked, flak·ing
1. To peel off in flakes.
2. To form into flakes.
3. To spot or become spotted with flakes. [ME <Scand. Akin to FLAG⁴.]

(flāk) noun
1. A light staging or platform for drying fish.
2. A flap on a saddle to keep the rider's knee from the horse. [<ON flaki hurdle]

(flāk) v. flaked, flak·ing Slang v.i.
1. To retire or go to sleep, as from exhaustion: usually with out.
—v.t.
2. To fatigue; exhaust: usually with out.