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Distoma :: Distoma (n.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2..

Palm :: Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor 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..

Whiff :: Whiff (n.) The marysole, or sail fluke..

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor..

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.

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:.

Peak :: Peak (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Grapnel :: Grapnel (n.) A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel..

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..

Flukeworm :: Flukeworm (n.) Same as 1st Fluke, 2..

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..

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

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