aflankadv.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1043/1 They were so galled with arrowes, which the archers shot at them a flanke, that they were not able to endure.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxiii Afront..fortie foot: but aflanke, or on the side, twentie.

1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes i. xix. 76 Lucibel comming in, charged them a flanke so furiously, that he cut off four thousand of them.

1839 G. L. Craik & C. Macfarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. II. vi. i. 462/1 ‘The master of the ordnance’, continues the narrative, ‘to their great annoyance did gall them with hail shot and other out of the great ordnance directly from the hill-top, and certain other gunners with their pieces aflank from our rear-ward.’

1857 C. M. Sawyer Rose of Sharon 77 At its front A small, neat garden; orchards bending down With fruit arear; and broad, rich fields aflank.

1944 in G. M. Young Victorian Ess. (1962) 109 It was not the sufferings of Bulgaria and the hideous iniquities of the Turk of which the people were thinking, but of Russia stretching out to Constantinople, aflank of our own highway to the East.

2000 J. C. Blake Wildwood Boys (2001) i. 52 After crossing the hills aflank of Segur's rangeland they had borne north for this good hiding place.