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Fluke   /fluk/   Listen
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



... golly, I wish you'd tell us what yuh done it for!" Slim cut in disgustedly. "It was nacherlay supposed you could ride; we got money up on yuh! And then, by golly, to go and make a fluke like that before them Diamond G men—to go and let that blue roan pile yuh up b'fore he'd got rightly started t' pitch—If yuh'd stayed with him till he got t' swappin' ends there, it wouldn't uh looked quite so bad. But t' go and git ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... cut with axes, we found remnants of bamboo lattice work, palm leaves sewed with cotton thread into the form of such hats as are worn by the Chinese, and the remains of blue cotton trousers, of the fashion called moormans. A wooden anchor of one fluke, and three boats rudders of violet wood were also found; but what puzzled me most was a collection of stones piled together in a line, resembling a low wall, with short lines running perpendicularly at the back, dividing the space behind into compartments. In each of these were the remains of ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2 • Matthew Flinders
... in practising upon a poor old woman who only by a sort of fluke isn't your grandmother?" ...
— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland
... torpedo shimmering past the ship's side, called out, "Oh, Mummy, look at the pretty fish!" Once a fast torpedo was hit and exploded by a shell from the vessel its submarine was chasing. But this was a perfect fluke. ...
— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood
... fluke, sir," said Wilson, as one who tells of strange things, "the rat happened to be pointing in the same direction, ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse


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