FLUKE

noun the european flounder. ·see flounder.

2. fluke ·noun an instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

3. fluke ·noun the part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. ·see anchor.

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

5. fluke ·noun one of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

6. 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.

7. 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.