Flake typically refers to small, thin pieces of material, often detached by peeling or chipping, whereas a fleck is a very small patch of color or light.
A paling; a hurdle. Flake A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. Flake (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc. Flake (nautical) gloss=turn or...
The stanchion of the ship's wheel stands out clear on the open ruins of the RMS Titanic's bridge. Sets of breakfast dishes from the sunken Titanic in the position they were found by expedition in 1987. A lifeboat windlass on the boat deck of the Titanic covered in rusticles, iron extrud...