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CONTINGENCY |
Fluke |
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COINCIDENCE |
Fluke |
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FLOWK |
See 1st Fluke. |
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SMEAR DAB |
The sand fluke (b). |
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FLOOK |
A fluke of an anchor. |
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WHIFF |
The marysole, or sail fluke. |
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FLUKEWORM |
Same as 1st Fluke, 2. |
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FLUKY |
Formed like, or having, a fluke. |
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GOURDWORM |
The fluke of sheep. See Fluke. |
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PALM |
The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. |
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PEAK |
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. |
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MARYSOLE |
A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma);
-- called also carter, and whiff. |
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BILL |
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond
the fluke. |
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SCRATCH |
A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the
player; a fluke. |
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ARM |
The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in
the fluke. |
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SANDNECKER |
A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); --
called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker. |
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FLUKE |
One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the
resemblance to the fluke of an anchor. |
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DISTOMA |
A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers
for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2. |
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ROT |
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. |
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BILLBOARD |
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. |
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CROSSBAR |
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. |
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ANCHOR |
...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
... |
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TURBOT |
..., or blind, side is white. Called also
bannock fluke. ... |
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TREMATODEA |
...cies are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most
important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes
usual... |