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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Flowk :: Flowk (n.) See 1st Fluke.

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

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

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

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..

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:.

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

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

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..

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

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.

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