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flanker n OED ~ sb1 (?Nfld 1840-); EDD ~
sb2 Do So Nfld; DC Nfld (1835-). A live spark from a wood fire; a
burning ember.
1836 [WIX]2 49 'Flankers,' or bright
sparks ... flew up his chimney to some height in the clear star-lit sky, from his brisk
birch fire. 1840 GOSSE 11 Even when dry, they consume so quickly, and so continually
throw out lighted fragments, 'flankers,' as they are called, that they are confined to
our close stoves. 1939 DULEY 67 Flankers flew ahead ... while heat blistered the new
white paint. T 158-65 All that ridge burned in there—flames used to come out,
flankers come out, pitch on the felt. 1976 O'NEILL ii, 629 A number of ships in the
harbour were burned to the waterline by 'flankers' (flaming embers) carried on board by
the high wind.
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