Fluke

·noun The European flounder. ·see Flounder.

II. Fluke ·noun An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

III. Fluke ·noun The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. ·see Anchor.

IV. Fluke ·add. ·vt & ·vi To get or score by a fluke; as, to fluke a play in billiards.

V. Fluke ·noun One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an Anchor.

VI. Fluke ·noun 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.

VII. Fluke ·noun 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.