fluke
fluke is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The European flounder. See Flounder. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The European flounder. See Flounder.
- 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.
- noun. The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
- noun. One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.
- noun. An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
- 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.
- noun. parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
- noun. either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
- noun. flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- noun. a barb on a harpoon or arrow
- noun. a stroke of luck
Synonyms
Common word forms
fluked, flukes, fluking, flukeless
Words from these letters
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