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Definition of Flankered
1. flanker [v] - See also: flanker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flankered
Literary usage of Flankered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1906)
"The castle was not flankered 1, and there were no works about it, when Mr.
Hutchinson undertook it, but only a little breastwork, before the outermost gate. ..."
2. The Literary Reader for Higher Grades by Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1912)
"... Each with its farmhouse builded rude, By English yeoman 3 squared and hewed,
And the grim, flankered 4 blockhouse bound With bristling ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1886)
"twork and flankered, and many small blockhouses up and down, round about; they
entertained us with a fierce fight, and many thou- !iot. for about an hour, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Leslie fell back at the approach of his enemy, and entrenched himself in a strong
position, " flankered " on either side by Edinburgh and Leith ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"PSn I understand, since writing of this Letter, that Major-General Montgomery is
slain* Cautious David Lesley lies thus within his Line ' flankered' from ..."
6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1843)
"... and a broad and deep graff, and the line throughout better flankered than the
other. The next morning, with no other provisions fit for such a work, ..."
7. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... where foure men may keepe downe a multitude : this Rocke is so walled, flankered,
and furnished with Ordnance, as it seemeth to me, it may command both ..."
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