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   1985 GOSSE 122 A man equipped with merely a water pail and shovel walked the railway line on guard for burning 'flankers' from the old steam engine. 1986 SAUNDERS 23 There we huddled all one night...watching the flames and flankers going up along the whole western sky. 1987 Evening Telegram 2 May, p. 8 The room was full of flankers for awhile, but it was great fun stamping them out and seeing your footprints in the soot.

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