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

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

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..

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

Marysole :: Marysole (n.) A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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.

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

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

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..

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

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

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