Flanker vs Blanker - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between flanker and blanker

is that flanker is (obsolete) to defend by lateral fortifications while blanker is .

is (rugby) a player who plays in the back row of the scrum.

(en noun)

(rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.

(American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.

(military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.

* (Washington Irving)

They threw out flankers , and endeavored to dislodge their assailants.

(en verb)

(obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.

(obsolete) To attack sideways.

(Evelyn)

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(head)

(blank)

* 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"

And lonely as it is, that loneliness

Will be more lonely ere it will be less —

A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

With no expression, nothing to express.

(en noun)

(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.

* 1987 , Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple (page 221)

These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.

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