flanching, vbl. n.
Also flaunching.
[See flanch v.]
a. The action or state of spreading outwards. b. The sloping fillet of cement or mortar in which the base of a chimney-pot is bedded. Also called flanched work.
| 1802 Gentl. Mag. Apr. 325/1 The boat is about 30 feet long..built in a flaunching manner. 1803 Naval Chron. IX. 283 The flaunching, or spreading form of the boat..gives her a considerable bearing. 1833 Loudon Encycl. Archit. §234 Sections of the flanchings. 1904 Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 226/2 Flaunching or flaunc[h]ed work, the cement fillet round the bed of a chimney pot. |