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fake

2  [feyk] verb, faked, fak⋅ing, noun Nautical
Use flake down in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often fol. by down).
–noun
2. any complete turn of a rope that has been faked down.
3. any of the various ways in which a rope may be faked down.
Also, flake.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME faken to coil (a rope), of obscure orig.
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flake down

  1. in.
    to go to bed; to go to sleep. : After I flake down for about three days, I'll tell you about my trip.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

fake 
attested in London criminal slang as adj. (1775), verb (1812), and noun (1827), but probably older. Likely source is feague "to spruce up by artificial means," from Ger. fegen "polish, sweep," also "to clear out, plunder" in colloquial use. "Much of our early thieves' slang is Ger. or Du., and dates from the Thirty Years' War" [Weekley]. Or it may be from L. facere "to do."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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