[Onomatopœic; cf. flick, spank.] trans. To whip with a light, sudden stroke, to flick; also, to crack (a whip).
1830. Lytton, P. Clifford, iii. He then, taking up the driving-whip, flanked a fly from the opposite wall.
1833. Anglo-sapphic Ode, in Whibley, Cap and Gown, 136.
| Mack! I maintain immaculate we are, for | |
| No Robert Whig Mack Beverly, Esquire, now | |
| Kicks up a row, gets drunk, or flanks a tandem— | |
| Whip out of window. |
1861. [Mrs. A. J. Penny], Romance Dull Life, vii. 52. He still eased his feelings by ‘flanking’ everything in the room with a very dusty pocket-handkerchief at all odd minutes.
