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

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

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.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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:.

Fluke :: 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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