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Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

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

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station..

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..

Bill :: Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the 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..

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..

Gourdworm :: Gourdworm (n.) The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.

Flowk :: Flowk (n.) See 1st Fluke.

Flook :: Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor.

Smear Dab :: Smear dab () The sand fluke (b).

Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke..

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..

Anchored :: Anchored (a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross..

Sandnecker :: Sandnecker (n.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker..

Arm :: Arm (n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke..

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) The European flounder. See Flounder.

Entozoa :: Entozoa (n. pl.) A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes..

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