Definition of fluke

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

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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
Mutilate :: Mutilate (a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean..
Smear Dab :: Smear dab () The sand fluke (b).
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..
Fluky :: Fluky (a.) Formed like, or having, a fluke..
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..
Anchored :: Anchored (a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross..
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..
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.
Arm :: Arm (n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke..
Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
Flukeworm :: Flukeworm (n.) Same as 1st Fluke, 2..
Marysole :: Marysole (n.) A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff..
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.
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..
Anchor :: Anchor (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station..
Flowk :: Flowk (n.) See 1st Fluke.
Gourdworm :: Gourdworm (n.) The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
Flook :: Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor.
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