Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The European flounder. See Flounder.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
- 4noun
One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.
- 5noun
An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
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- 8noun
either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
- 9noun
flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
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- 10noun
a barb on a harpoon or arrow
- 11noun
a stroke of luck
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