Crossword clues for flanker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flanker \Flank"er\, 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.
They threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge
their assailants.
--W. Irwing.
Flanker \Flank"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flankered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flankering.] [See Flank, v. t.]
To defend by lateral fortifications. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Herbert.To attack sideways. [Obs.]
--Evelyn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from flank (n.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rugby English) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum. 2 (context American football English) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage. 3 (context military English) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To defend by lateral fortifications. 2 (context obsolete English) To attack sideways.
WordNet
n. a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver [syn: flanker back]
a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation
Wikipedia
Flanker may refer to:
Flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union. Each team of 15 players includes two flankers, who play in the forwards, and are generally classified as either blindside or openside flankers, numbers 6 and 7 respectively. The name comes from their position in a scrum in which they 'flank' each set of forwards. They fight for the ball– most commonly in rucks and mauls. Flankers also assist in pushing in a scrum, but are expected to detach from the scrum as early as possible in order to get to the play before the opposition's forwards. Flankers also participate in line-outs, either being lifted to contest or win possession, or to lift other players. Flankers are usually the key participants in the tackling process. Like other forward positions, flankers put more emphasis on strength than on speed.
In perfumery, a flanker refers to newly created perfume that shares some attributes of an already existing perfume. These attributes may be the name, packaging or notes of the existing fragrance.
Usage examples of "flanker".
Troop Guide Bikaner, I want four men on foot to go forward as flankers atop those rocks.
Not as The President: a broken little bully who would sacrifice us all to save himself -- if he still had the choice -- but the same kind of sympathy I might feel, momentarily, for a vicious cheap-shot linebacker whose long career comes to a sudden end one Sunday afternoon when some rookie flanker shatters both his knees with a savage crackback block.
Thence they had an excellent view of a large body of horsemen approaching them with scouts, flankers, and all military precautions.
Dik, then had his patrol remount and ride on, drawing his flankers in tighter since the broad, cultivated fields to either side left insufficient cover to hide ambushers, and if any force should come out of the distant woods, the open stretches they would be forced to cover would allow for more than adequate warning.
Freefighters with the flankers taking the road a bare half-hour later.
General Hamil did not speak again to Kadiya, although he kept her close by as he listened to reports brought in by flankers and scouts.
He knew the pattern they would assume, the two flankers moving ahead, the leaderhidden in sorceryhanging back, eyes flicking between the two hunters, scanning alley mouths, rooftops, a rib-less crossbow in each hand.
Such as were able to do so fenced their dwellings with palisades, or built them of solid timber, with loopholes, a projecting upper story like a blockhouse, and sometimes a flanker at one or more of the corners.
Not checking to see if Red Flight had managed to keep up with him as he sped eastward toward the evading American fighters, the leader of Brezhnev Group One put his Sukhoi-27 Flanker in a max after-burner climb and searched frantically on wide-scan radar for the intruders.
The two Sukhoi-27 Flanker fighters that had given chase were the only ones able to spot the missile launches and take evasive action in time, and the Viper missiles chasing them exploded harmlessly after their propellant was exhausted.
At twenty thousand feet in the thin air over Kunashir Island, Sergei Viktor cruised in his assigned position, making a five-mile circle over the target below in his SU-33 Flanker, then doing a lazy eight, and coming back to circle his position the other way.
The flankers had to keep Slightly ahead of the tracker, anticipating the line of the spoor, sweeping the terrain for ambush, covering and protecting Matatu yet keeping fifty paces out on each side, breaking their own trail and still maintaining contact with the opposite flanker, all this while on the run and mostly out of sight of each other, with Matatu setting a furious pace in the center.
They set off more carefully across the open, scorched deck-point guard, flankers, the main body following with their guns ready.
The man was the left flanker of the front rank, a small man, and he had bitten off his cartridge and was pouring the powder down the muzzle of his musket.
He nosed the SU-33 Flanker downward, and pushed on his radar fire controls.