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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..

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..

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

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

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

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor..

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

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

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

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..

Fluky :: Fluky (a.) Formed like, or having, 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

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:.

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..

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

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

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

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

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