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

Tepidity :: Tepidity (n.) The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness.

Sandnecker :: Sandnecker (n.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

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..

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..

Mameluke :: Mameluke (n.) One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811..

Benedictus :: Benedictus (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

Sea Apple :: Sea apple () The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea..

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

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