Definition of fluke

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Fluke (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

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Peak :: Peak (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
Sandnecker :: Sandnecker (n.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker..
Turbot :: Turbot (n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke..
Distoma :: Distoma (n.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2..
Bill :: Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
Mutilate :: Mutilate (a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean..
Fluke :: Fluke (n.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor..
Crossbar :: Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down..
Cetacea :: Cetacea (n. pl.) An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:.
Smear Dab :: Smear dab () The sand fluke (b).
Flukeworm :: Flukeworm (n.) Same as 1st Fluke, 2..
Davit :: Davit (n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit..
Anchored :: Anchored (a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross..
Trematodea :: Trematodea (n. pl.) An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodi
Marysole :: Marysole (n.) A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff..
Whiff :: Whiff (n.) The marysole, or sail fluke..
Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
Palm :: Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
Fluky :: Fluky (a.) Formed like, or having, a fluke..
Rot :: Rot (n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2..
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