flake

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
2. 2
   A scale of a fish or similar animal
3. 3
   A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
4. 4
   A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
5. 5
   A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
6. 6
   A flat turn or tier of rope.
7. 7
   A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
8. 8
   A wire rack for drying fish.
9. 9
   Dogfish.
10. 10
    The meat of the gummy shark.
11. 11
    A paling; a hurdle.
12. 12
    A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
13. 13
    A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
14. 14
    Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

Verb

1. 1
   To break or chip off in a flake.
2. 2
   To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
3. 3
   To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
4. 4
   To hit (another person).
5. 5
   To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
6. 6
   To lay out on a flake for drying.

Proper noun

1. 1
   A surname.