flank

About 3.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To attack the flank(s) of.
2. verb To defend the flank(s) of.
3. verb To place to the side(s) of.
4. verb To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).
5. noun The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip.
6. noun A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
7. noun The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
8. noun The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.

Similar words

wing slope left open sidewall cost accompany hillside margin thin

Often followed by

of and the was to attack movement by pain

Word family

flanked flanking flanks