flake
n.— «I took a large flake of hay and laid it on some rails which I had fixed for that purpose, and creeped under it, to shelter myself, in some small measure, from the rain.» —by Stephen Burroughs Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs (Boston) , 1835. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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