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Flipper   Listen
noun
Flipper  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
2.
(Naut.) The hand. (Slang)






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"Flipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... my harpoon, were having a hard fight. Their seal had been struck once with the harpoon on the left shoulder. Tom tried to intercept its retreat, and just as it was entering the water he fell down upon it with all his weight, at the same time grasping its wounded flipper in his two hands. The seal, though weak, drew him some way over the slippery stones and into the sea; but Tom proved victor. Rising on his knees in the water, he wrapped both his arms round the seal, and, with the assistance of Rosson, ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton



Words linked to "Flipper" :   aquatic mammal, aquatic vertebrate, flip, fin, squareflipper square flipper, limb, shoe, flipper-like



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