A flake, fragment, or shiver.
A thin cake, as of ice.
A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw
From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Pro...
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