fluke2, flook2 (flok)

[Also dial. flowk, fluck, Sc. flook, fleuk; flooc, a flat fish, usually glo ed plati a (prop. plate a, a plaice, once pans or, prop. pa er (1), a turbot), = Icel. flöki, a kind of halibut, pa er, sole a.] 1. A name given locally in Great Britain to species of flatfish. (a) In North umber land, the common flounder, Pleuronectes flesus, called in Moray Frith fresh - water fleuk and bigger fleuk. (b) About Edinburgh, the dab, Limanda limanda, called salt-water fluke, and in Moray Frith gray fleuk. See cut under dab. (c) Along the east coast of Scotland, the turbot, Psetta maxi ma, also known as the roddan or roan leuk, gunner fleuk, and rawn fleuk. There are numerous species, of several genera. The common fluke is Fasciola hepatica; the liver-fluke is Distoma hepaticum; the lancet-shaped fluke is D. lanceolatum; the broad fluke of China is D. cra um; the fluke infestheterophyes or Heterophyes ægyptiaca. Also called fluke worm. See cuts under cercaria and Trematoda. Like sheep-boys stuffing themselves with blackberries, while the sheep are licking up flukes in every ditch. Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy, ii. 8. Craig fluke. See craig -fluke. fluke3 (flök), n. [E. dial., appar. an irreg. form of flock2, influenced by flues, waste downy mat ter: see flock2 and flues.] 1. Waste cotton.2. A lock of hair. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng. in both senses.] fluke-chain (flök'chan), n. A chain used in fluking fluking a whale. See flukel, v. fluke-rope (flök'rop), n. In whaling , a rope fastened around the slender part or small of the body of a whale, near the flukes, in fluking it.