2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. English Husbandman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. [ 1913 Webster ]

With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a person who behaves strangely; a flaky{ 2 } person. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

Flake knife (Archæol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. Tylor. --
Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. Knight. --
Flake white. (Paint.) (a) The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales. (b) The trisnitrate of bismuth. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate. F. T. Bullen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞ Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland. --
Lake dwellings (Archaeol.), dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See Crannog. --
Lake fly (Zool.), any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvae live in lakes. --
Lake herring (Zool.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii). --
Lake poets,
Lake school, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and lakists. --
Lake sturgeon (Zool.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food. --
Lake trout (Zool.), any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See Namaycush. --
Lake whitefish. (Zool.) See Whitefish. --
Lake whiting (Zool.), an American whitefish (Coregonus Labradoricus), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bridge tender . . . thought the Cowies “a little mite” longer than that laker. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To abate; to become less decided. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To slacken; to become relaxed. “When the body's strongest sinews slake.” [ R. ] Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slake trough, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith cools a forging or tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Snowbird, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (Leucoium vernum, Leucoium aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size. [ 1913 Webster ]