flanker

flanker englannista suomeksi

1. laitahyökkääjä

2. sivustasuoja

0. Substantiivi

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flanker englanniksi

1. A player who plays in the row of the scrum.

2. A receiver who lines up behind the of scrimmage.

3. A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.

4. 1675, ''The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson'', from The Portable Native American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 312,

About two hours...they had been about the house before they prevailed to fire it (which they did with Flax and Hemp, which they brought out of the Barn, and there being no defence about the House, only two Flankers at two opposite corners and one of them not finished) they fired it once and one ventured out and quenched it, but they quickly fired it again, and that took.

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1803|author=Robert Charles Dallas|title=The History of the Maroons|location=London|publisher=Longman and Rees|section=Volume 1, Letter 2, p. 27|url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_44228

6. {{quote-book|en|year=1855|author=Washington Irving|title=The Life of George Washington|location=New York|publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell|volume=1|chapter=37|page=278|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofgeorgewash12irvi_0

7. To defend by lateral fortifications.

8. (RQ:Herbert Travaile)o weakly mann'd nor flanker'd as they were made belive

9. To attack sideways.

10. 1670, (w), ''Sylva or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions'', London, Chapter 3, “Of the Oak,” p.(nbs)19,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38811.0001.001

(..) to my observation in our ''Climates'', where those sharp ''winds'' do rather ''flanker'' than blow fully opposite upon our Plantations, they thrive best (..)

11. (infl of)

12. (l)

13. (inflection of)

14. (noun form of)