flaking (flaking)

The operation of making flints, as for gun-locks, by striking off flakes from a ma of flint. See the extract. The. operation, " flaking ," consists in striking off, by means of carefully measured and well-directed blows, flakes extending from end to end of the quarter, this proce of flaking being continued till the quarter or core becomes too small to yield good flakes. Encyc. Brit ., IX. 326.