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Nautical Wordsmith
Don’t flake out
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To flake out -- which generally means to make a hasty withdrawal from an activity because of fatigue -- may have originally come from an old nautical expression.
Flaking is the procedure of laying out the anchor rode on the deck of a ship for inspection to locate and replace the weak links.
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This article first appeared in the June 1, 1998 issue of GoBoating Magazine. All or parts of the information contained in this article might be outdated. |
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