Fluke is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLUKE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to obtain by chance
• achieve (something) by luck rather than skill.
• gain, make, or hit by a fluke
NOUN:
• an unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck
• a parasitic flatworm which typically has suckers and hooks for attachment to the host. Some species are of veterinary or medical importance.
• a flatfish, especially a flounder.
• a broad triangular plate on the arm of an anchor.
• accidental stroke of luck
• The European flounder. See Flounder.
• 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.
• The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
• One of the lobes of a whale\'s tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.
• An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
• 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.
• a stroke of luck
• a barb on a harpoon or arrow
• flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
• either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
• parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
• either of the lobes of a whale's tail.

Words related to FLUKE

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Words that contain FLUKE

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How to use FLUKE in a sentence

• It dropped in exactly the right place, and Jack Vance, by some happy fluke, kicked it just as it touched the ground.
• It never entered my head that I could traverse across any slope and so I always went straight down and only by a fluke did I ever stand.
• See how perfectly it would have worked but for a mere fluke and for the complication of your presence.
• Thus ends the sad history of a monarch who might have succeeded in a minor position on a hen farm, but who made a beastly fluke in the king business.
• It would seem always possible to pull the thing round by a happy fluke, it would rarely be absolutely clear that things were going wrong.
• A man may make a lucky hit now and again by what is called a fluke, but even this must be only a little in advance of his other performances of the same kind.
• By a queer fluke these are the very two men with whom I did my very first flight! On that never to be forgotten day Samson took up Winston and Davies took me.
• Last week, by the merest fluke, I rescued my best boots from a similar fate.
• We anchored on the north side of the former, but broke the fluke, from the rocky nature of the bottom.
• Everybody dreams and out of the innumerable dreams of mankind, a few must hit the mark by a fluke.
• Nevertheless Seest thou a man diligent in business? He shall stand before Kings! Willard Fluke MY wife lost her health, And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds.
• You have been trying to fluke an expression on my face all the morning.
• She has courage, too, or I should not be here on a mere fluke.
• Wallace is unable to explain how he made a fluke of that first shot, and I am sure I have no idea.
• We took upwards of three hundred prisoners, De Wet himself escaping by the merest fluke.

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