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noun

Fluke n.

1.

(Zool.) The European flounder. See Flounder. (Written also fleuk, flook, and flowk)

2.

(Zool.) Any American flounder of the genus Paralichthys, especially Paralicthys dentatus, found in the Atlantic Ocean and in adjacent bays.

3.

(Zool.) 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.

Fluke n.

1.

The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

2.

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

3.

An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

4.

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. (Cant, Eng.)

verb

Fluke v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. fluked; pres. part. fluking) To get or score by a fluke; as, to fluke a play in billiards. (Slang)

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"Fluke" Quotes from Famous Books

... a ship's ribs. This was the schooner laden with pipe-clay, out of which in a dangerous sea the captain and crew escaped in their own boat, as the lifeboat advanced to save them. Far away on the Sands you see the fluke of a ship's anchor, which from the shape when close to it we recognise to be a ...

— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor

... And close to us, beginning to bend away towards that hissing knot in the north-west, wound our poor little channel, mercilessly exposed as a stagnant, muddy ditch with scarcely a foot of water, not deep enough to hide our small kedge-anchor, which perked up one fluke in impudent mockery. The dull, hard sky, the wind moaning in the rigging as though crying in despair for a prey that had escaped it, made ...

— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers

... She has traveled, she has studied, she is at home with grand dukes in Nice, and scribblers in a country village. She is wise without being solemn. She has courage, too, or I should not be here on a mere fluke. Now, my boy, you have given yourself due ...

— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath

... away the earth in different places, till he found where there was a good crevice between two pieces of rock, where, making use of the anchor as if it were a pickaxe, he dug out the earth till he could force down one fluke close between the stones till the stock was level, when he gave it a ...

— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn

... Dobbs allowed him to look over the library of the late Vicar of Fenside, and at length he came to a volume of "Sturm's Reflections," on the title page of which was written, in a clear mercantile hand, "Given to Susan Fluke, on her marriage with Henry Walford Esquire, by her ...

— Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs - A Tale of Land and Sea • William H. G. Kingston

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