different between flanker vs blindside

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

Alternative forms

• blind-side

Etymology

blind +? side

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?nd?sa?d/

Noun

blindside (plural blindsides)

1. (automotive) A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver.
2. (figuratively) A person's weak point.
3. (rugby) The space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside.
4. (rugby union) The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6.

   The blindside packs down at the scrum on the blindside.

Synonyms

• (a driver's field of blindness): blindspot

Translations

Verb

blindside (third-person singular simple present blindsides, present participle blindsiding, simple past and past participle blindsided)

1. (transitive) To attack (a person) on his or her blind side.

   The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.

2. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To catch off guard; to take by surprise.

   He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:blindside.

Translations