Fleak

Quick meaning: Fleak is a noun meaning (transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”).

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”).

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) Synonym of fleck.
2. (obsolete except British, dialectal) Synonym of flake.

Example Sentences

Whence to flea, or to fleak, i.e. to pull off the skin. A school phrase, to be fleaked off, i.e. to have the skin fetched off by whipping.

The leaves are broader zoned with bright redish brown and deep chocolate, and within the zone fleaked with yellow and green, the outer margin being similarly colored.

Just then a messenger arrived on a horse fleaked with foam, with orders for the Regiment to march back with all haste to Athens, as an attack was expected the next morning.

Even Jupiter, […] is known chiefly by the dark shifting bands that, fleaking his surface in the line of his trade-winds, belong not to his body, but to his thick dark covering.

Word Forms

• fleaks
• fleaking
• fleaked

Synonyms for fleak

Depending on context, synonyms include flake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flip-flap, gliff, flockling, fling, whiffle, flap.

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