different between flanker vs blanker

English

Etymology

flank +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæ?k?(?)/

Noun

flanker (plural flankers)

1. (rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
2. (American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
3. (military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
   • 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.

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 2, p. 27,^[1]

     [The planters’ houses] were frequently constructed with flankers and loopholes, for the purpose of firing upon the assailants when they approached so near.

   • 1855, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Volume 1, Chapter 37, p. 278,^[2]

     It was in vain they threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge their assailants; each pause gave time for other pursuers to come within reach, and open attacks from different quarters.

Hyponyms

• blindside flanker
• openside flanker

Translations

Verb

flanker (third-person singular simple present flankers, present participle flankering, simple past and past participle flankered)

1. (obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.
   • 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great

     the Castle was neither ?o weakly mann'd nor flanker'd as they were made belive

2. (obsolete) To attack sideways.
   • 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions, London, Chapter 3, “Of the Oak,” p. 19,^[3]

     […] to my observation in our Climates, where those sharp winds do rather flanker than blow fully opposite upon our Plantations, they thrive best […]

Anagrams

• Falkner, Frankel

Danish

Noun

flanker c

1. indefinite plural of flanke

Verb

flanker or flankér

1. imperative of flankere

French

Noun

flanker m (plural flankers)

1. (rugby) flanker

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

flanker m

1. indefinite plural of flanke

Verb

flanker

1. imperative of flankere

English

Etymology

blank +? -er

Adjective

blanker

1. comparative form of blank: more blank
   • 1936, Robert Frost, "Desert Places"

     And lonely as it is, that loneliness

     Will be more lonely ere it will be less —

     A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

     With no expression, nothing to express.

Noun

blanker (plural blankers)

1. (computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
   • 1987, Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple (page 221)

     These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.

Anagrams

• reblank

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

blanker

1. inflection of blank:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural