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Flaking

Flake \Flake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaking.] To form into flakes.
--Pope.

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flaking
  1. Breaking or tending to break into flakes. n. A piece of flaked material. v

  2. (present participle of flake English)

Usage examples of "flaking".

Furthermore, the flaking on the flints was undoubtedly of human origin.

From the foredeck, Althea could not see that much of her face, but she could see the paint flaking away from the wizardwood carving.

Ed teacher almost two decades ago affectionately if firmly referred to as The Big Picture, Kraft catches the total, pointillist effect: cars flaking off each other in the steady current, making a shimmering moire, like sheer curtains swaying in front of a screen.

The shiplap boards were flaking, and most of the windowsills were rotten.

De Mortillet, like modern authorities, believed that in almost all cases unifacial flaking is not the result of chance impacts but of deliberate work.

William missed most of it, as he checked the flaking of the cables with his two men, and saw the anchors loose-lashed on the bulwarks clear to cut and slip if need arose.

Celie, had found it in a thrift store, scraped it clean of its flaking black paint and repainted it with silver glitter.

At the outset, it had appeared that there should be comparatively little difficulty in apprehending the clearly deranged killer, for the flaking woodwork and the warped floorboards inside the trash-filled bandstand bore numerous bloody handprints, fingerprints, and even prints of shoe soles.

The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's Clue The case began on the outskirts of an upstate New York city with the dreadful name of Eulalia, behind the flaking shutters of a fat and curlicued house with architectural dandruff, recalling for all the world some blowsy ex-Bloomer Girl from the Gay Nineties of its origin.

The girl had already given Rolf's figurehead a base coat in a flesh tint where the flaking &quot.

The suit looked as if it had once been as black as coal, but now it was badly charred, the surface flaking off, so as the figure spun it gave off a shower of scorched flakes like a firework.

It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin-worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age.

The British submarine was leaving faint traces, flakings of her skin, faint noises of her breathing.

Often, they were made more treacherous by the flakings of stucco that fell from the deteriorating wall.

There are very small quantities of dusts, flakings and fibers abraded from walls, working surfaces and instruments.