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SIDE |
Flank |
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HILLSIDE |
Mountain flank |
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FLANKED |
Of Flank |
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FLANKING |
Of Flank |
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ASIDE |
Excluding one flank |
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SILVERSIDE |
Beef with argent flank |
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SKIRT |
Try to avoid beef cut from flank |
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FLAK |
Separating new leader from flank produced heavy criticism |
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FLANK |
To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon. |
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CONVERSION |
A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the
flank. |
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SHOULDER |
The angle of a bastion included between the face and
flank. See Illust. of Bastion. |
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DEMIBASTION |
A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting
of one face and one flank. |
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RAND |
A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg;
a sort of steak. |
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SURFACE |
That part of the side which is terminated by the flank
prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. |
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OUTFLANK |
To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass
around or turn the flank or flanks of. |
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OBSERVATORY |
A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer
can note the range and effect of the fire. |
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DEMIGORGE |
Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from
the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion. |
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HEAVES |
A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing,
with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough;
broken wind. |
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EPAULE |
The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and
flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder. |
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ORILLON |
A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a
bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old
fortresses. |
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ELBOW |
A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other
woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides
of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back. |
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GUIDE |
A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the
directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the
end of a line, to mark ... |
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STIFLE |
The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the
hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to
the knee in man;... |
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REFUSE |
To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a
wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to
engage the enemy... |
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PINNACLE |
...nding in
a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a
proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the l... |