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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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

Fluky :: Fluky (a.) Formed like, or having, a 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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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