What is "flankers"

Usage examples of "flankers".

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.