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Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Flook.Americanized spell of German Fluck or Pflug.
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Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Pious
Boy/Male
Indian
Slave of the excellence, Servant of the glorious, Servant of the noble
Boy/Male
Latin
Blessed.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Chiyram, HIRAM means "free-born; noble." In the bible, this is the name of a king of Tyre and the name of the chief architect of Solomon's temple.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sikh
Deep Knowledge; Courage Full of Morals
Girl/Female
English
lime tree; linden tree; beautiful.
Female
Japanese
(æµ) Japanese name MEGUMI means "blessing."
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Genius
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lord Indra
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Before Morning
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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.
n.
Same as 1st Fluke, 2.
n.
The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
n. pl.
An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.
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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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.
a.
Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
n.
A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
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A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff.
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The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
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:
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A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
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An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
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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.
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A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
n.
The marysole, or sail fluke.
a.
Formed like, or having, a fluke.
n.
The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
n.
The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.