[f. FLAKE v.1 + -ER1.]
1. One who flakes; spec. one who strikes off flakes of flint to be used as gun-flints.
1879. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9), IX. 326/1. An expert flaker will make 7000 to 10,000 flakes in a day of twelve hours, and in the same time an average knapper will finish from flakes about 3000 gun-flints.
2. An implement for flaking flint.
1891. D. Wilson, Right Hand, iv. 51. A Ｔ-shaped wooden flaker sufficed for the Aztecs in shaping the easily-worked obsidian.
1891. Ardrossan Her., 30 Oct., 2. Flint implements and weapons, including … flakers, &c.
