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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..

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.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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