Military. one of a body of soldiers placed on the flank of an army to guard a line of march.
Fortification. a fortification projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
Football. Also called flank·er·back .an offensive back who lines up outside of an end.split end.
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The only reason Bareman started fighting was because he had washed out as a rugby flanker and he wanted to get back in shape so he could return to rugby.
Presumably, it was part of a flanker for a formal outdoor stair or steps (fig. 39).
I would send one man as a left flanker to follow the west bank of Sandy Creek.
The great flanker, or round tower, at the west end of the line was twenty-nine feet high.
What a sin it would be to spoil a fellow cut out for a flanker; and on a shoulder intended to carry a grenade, to hang a surplice.