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Flanker

noun
1.
A back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver.  Synonym: flanker back.
2.
A soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation.



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"Flanker" Quotes from Famous Books



... therein, but they knowe not how to vse them, for they feare them much: all their Peeces are of brasse, and they haue many brazen bases. Their walles are not aboue two foote thicke made of brickes: euery flanker hath diuers mastes and peeces of wood, which they vse when they are besieged by their enemies. The houses are made of straw and reedes, standing vpon 4. woodden postes. The rich haue their chambers all hanged with silken Curtins, or els with cotton ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt


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