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FLUKE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Flook.Americanized spell of German Fluck or Pflug.
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Girl/Female
Indian
Boy/Male
Hindu
Builder of the bridge over ocean
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Solid; Strong; Secure
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a diminutive of Dobb.Jewish (from Lithuania and Belarus) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Dobke, a pet form of Dobre (see Dobrin).
Boy/Male
Hindu
Like Rudra i.e. Hanuman, Shree Ganesh
Girl/Female
Bengali, Danish, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
Daughter; The Beautiful Lady; A Young Lady
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Beloved of Fire
Male
French
French form of Latin Sebastianus, SÉBASTIEN means "from Sebaste."
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil
Agriculture; Farming
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, lily, LILY means simply "lily flower."Â
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n.
A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
a.
Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
n.
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
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.
n.
The marysole, or sail fluke.
n. pl.
An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:
n.
The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
n.
The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
n.
A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
n.
A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff.
n. pl.
An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.
n.
An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
n.
The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
a.
Formed like, or having, a fluke.
n.
A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
n.
Same as 1st Fluke, 2.
n.
A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.
n.
A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
n.
One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.