noun
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anythingA scale of a fish or similar animalA prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.A flat turn or tier of rope.verb
To break or chip off in a flake.To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.To store an item such as rope or sail in layersTo hit (another person).