Definition of fluke

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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..

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Anchored :: Anchored (a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross..
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..
Mutilate :: Mutilate (a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean..
Flook :: Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor.
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..
Whiff :: Whiff (n.) The marysole, or sail fluke..
Peak :: Peak (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
Fluke :: Fluke (n.) The European flounder. See Flounder.
Bill :: Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the 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..
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..
Flukeworm :: Flukeworm (n.) Same as 1st Fluke, 2..
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..
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
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.
Marysole :: Marysole (n.) A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff..
Fluke :: Fluke (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
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..
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