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▸ noun: A scale of a fish or similar animal
▸ noun: (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
▸ noun: (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
▸ noun: A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
▸ noun: A flat turn or tier of rope.
▸ noun: (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
▸ noun: A wire rack for drying fish.
▸ verb: To break or chip off in a flake.
▸ verb: (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
▸ verb: (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
▸ verb: (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
▸ verb: (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
▸ verb: To lay out on a flake for drying.
▸ noun: (UK) Dogfish.
▸ noun: (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
▸ noun: (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
▸ noun: A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
▸ noun: (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”) [Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.]
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