What is the meaning of Flake?

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything

A scale of a fish or similar animal

A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.

A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

A flat turn or tier of rope.

A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.

A wire rack for drying fish.

To break or chip off in a flake.

To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

To store an item such as rope or sail in layers

To hit (another person).

To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.

To lay out on a flake for drying.

Dogfish.

The meat of the gummy shark.

A paling; a hurdle.

A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.

Alternative form of fake (turn or coil of cable or hawser)

Source: wiktionary.org