flange rail

A rail having a bent-up flange to keep the wheel on the rails. IMG:content-1715.png:[blocks in formation] 1849 3. To be posted so as to command or secure the flank or side of any pa or position; to pa round or turn the flank of. "Armed on the right, and on the left they stand, And flank the pa age." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid , ix. 21, 22. *4. To meet or receive on the flank or side; to oppose the side to. "For this a ault should either quarter feel, Again to flank the tempest she might reel." Falconer: Shipwreck. B. Intransitive: 3. A hinged leaf of a table or shutter. 4. A fly-flap (q. v.). "Flappe, instrument to smyte wythe flyys. Flabellum muscarium." -Prompt . Parv. 5. A slight stroke. "A flap with a fox-taile."- Florio , p. 137. II. Technically : 1. Veter.: A disease in horses. "When a horse has the flaps , you may perceive his lips swelled on both sides of his mouth; and that which is in the blister is like the white of an egg; cut some slashes with a knife, and rub it once with salt, and it will cure." 2. To be posted on the flank or side. *flănk-ard, *flanc-ard, s. [O. Fr.] 1. Sport.: One of the knobs or nuts in the flanks of a deer. 2. Old war : A covering for the flanks of horses. *flanke, *flaunke, s. [Dan. flunke .] A spark. flăńk-er, *flanck-er, s . [ Eng.flank ; -er.] 1. One who or that which flanks, or is posted, stationed, or placed on the flanks; skirmishers thrown out on the flanks of an army when marching; for 2. Bot . ( pl .): (1) Large broad mushrooms, probably Agaric us arvensis. (2) Peziza cochleata . (Britten & Holland .) [FLAB.] flap-dock, flapper-dock, flappy-dock, s . Bot .: is purpure a , or fox-glove. flap-door, s . A man-hole door.