Crossword-Solution: FLUKE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fluke | n. | The European flounder. See Flounder. |
| Fluke | n. | 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. |
| Fluke | n. | The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor. |
| Fluke | n. | One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor. |
| Fluke | n. | An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting. |
| Fluke | 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. |
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Sentences with FLUKE (5)
Kolskegg snatched up a grapnel and cast it at Karli's ship, and the fluke fell inside the hold, and went out through one of the planks and in rushed the coal-blue sea, and all the men sprang on board other ships.
XLI So swimming till the island is attained, With this towards the rock Orlando speeds: He hawls the anchor home (a footing gained), Pricked by whose double fluke, the monster bleeds.
Not silver--real good Australian gold! For old Ewbank hadn't quite appreciated me till then; he was a hard nut, a much older man than myself, and I felt pretty sure he thought me young for the place, and my supposed feat a fluke.
Also you knew he would not understand that _I_ could play billiards, and regarded every stroke I made as a fluke.
Raphael was a ‘fluke’ of God’s creation, for He foreordained that form and idea should be antagonistic; otherwise nothing could live.
Quotes with FLUKE (3)
I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because, by and large, we don't have the brainpower to grapple with it. Instead, the enormous zest for science that I see in first-graders and the lesson from the remnant hunter-gatherers both speak eloquently: A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthrig…
Success is not usually the result of pure chance or fluke. Mind you, neither is a failure the result of bad luck.
If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself — not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 60 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).