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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..

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot..

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

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

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

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

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:.

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

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

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

Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on..

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

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..

Fish-tackle :: Fish-tackle (n.) A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

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..

Mutilate :: Mutilate (a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean..

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..

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

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