See Also: flanker(dictionary)
Flanker - Rugby(gambling)
Gascoyne (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Gascoyne River(encyclopedia)
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of(encyclopedia)
Cecil (of Chelwood), (Edgar Algernon) Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount(encyclopedia)

Gascoyne River (sh) and flanker (iou)


Gascoyne River (sh)




River, western Western Australia.

It rises west of the Gibson Desert and flows west for 475 mi (760 km) through gold-mining and sheep-raising country and empties into the Indian Ocean at Carnarvon on Shark Bay.


flanker (iou)



flanker noun & verb. M16.
[from FLANK verb1 + -ER1.]
A. noun.
A fortification for protecting or threatening a flank. M16.
One of a detachment of soldiers sent to guard the flanks of a military formation. L16.
b. A trick or swindle. Chiefly in pull a flanker, work a flanker, etc. slang (orig. Military). E20.
c. In Rugby Union etc., a flank forward, a wing forward. In Amer. Football, a player who lines up in a position to the outside of an end. M20.
A thing which flanks anything. E17.
b. verb. [Cf. Dutch flankeren from French flanquer FLANK verb1.]
verb trans. Protect on the flanks; protect or threaten from a flanker. arch. L16.
verb intrans. Make an attack on the flank. Now rare or obsolete. E17.