1) Accident 2) Flue 3) Schistosome 4) Serendipity 5) Trematode
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1) Birth control activist Sandra 2) Bit of serendipity 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Fortune 6) Freak stroke of luck 7) Good fortune 8) Good luck 9) Half-court shot 10) Happy accident 11) Highly unusual event 12) Hole in one, assuredly 13) Luck 14) Lucky break 15) Lucky chance
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- a stroke of luck
- a barb on a harpoon or arrow
- flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor
- either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
- parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
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The wedge-shaped part of an anchor's arms that digs into the bottom.
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A dynamic snow anchor that dives deeper as it moves. For use in soft snow where pickets will pull out. Because a fluke slows a fall rather than stops a fall, flukes should only be used on pitches where slowing a fall is adequate protection.
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• (n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting. • (n.) 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. • (n.) The European flounder. See Flounder. • (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens i...
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(from the article `anchor`) device, usually of metal, attached to a ship or boat by a cable or chain and lowered to the seabed to hold the vessel in a particular place by means ...
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(from the article `cetacean`) ...in all cetacea but the dwarf and pygmy sperm whales. Flippers help to steer, while the back muscles, which are very large, drive the tail to ...
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any member of the invertebrate class Trematoda (phylum Platyhelminthes), a group of parasitic flatworms including nearly 6,000 species. Flukes occur ... [12 related articles]
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1. The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor. ... 2. <zoology> 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 Un...
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(flldbomack) an organism of the class Trematoda, characterized by a body that is usually flat and often leaflike; flukes can infect the blood, liver, intestines, and lungs. Called also trematode. blood fluke a member of genus Schistosoma. intestinal fluke ...
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the protruding arm of an anchor which digs into the sea bed
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Fluke transitive verb & i. [
imperfect & past participle Fluked ;
present participle & verbal noun Fluking .] To get or score by a fluke; as, to
fluke a play in billiards. [ Slang]
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Fluke (flūk) noun [ Confer Anglo-Saxon flōc a kind of flatfish, Icelandic flōki a kind of halibut.] 1. (Zoology) The European flounder. See Flounder . [ Written also fleuk , flook , and flowk ]. [ 1913 Webster] 2.
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a lucky shot that was not pre-planned
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lucky strokeÂ
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Flukes, or fluke-worms is a name given to certain parasitic Scolecida (tape-worms, etc), belonging to the division of Platyelmia or Flat-worms, and included in the order Trematoda. They inhabit various situations in different animals - mostly in birds and fishes. The Distoma hepaticum exists in large numbers in the livers of sheep, and causes the d...
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Fluke is a cultivated variety of potato.
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Fluke is slang for a lucky success.
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A shot excruciatingly executed, yet sublimely successful – do at least say sorry!
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A (Liver fluke) parasitic flatworm with a complex lifecycle involving snails and sheep/cattle.
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a parasitic flatworm that can infest humans
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trematode noun parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
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Any of various parasitic flatworms of the classes Monogenea and Digenea, that as adults live in and destroy the livers of sheep, cattle, horses, dogs, and humans. Monogenetic flukes can complete their life cycle in one host; digenetic flukes require two or more hosts, for example a snail and a human being, to complete their life cycle. Fluke...
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[SAT terms] a stroke of luck
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