Noun:

अचानक ठीक पड़नेवाली चेक, संयोग से पड़नेवाली चोट, लंगर का तिकोना नुकीला भाग,

flukes's Usage Examples:

In large numbers both skin and gill flukes represent a serious threat to fish health.

The flukes are broad, do not have a median notch, and have concave trailing edges.

The Tertiary strata of Andalusia are specially noteworthy for containing the native silver of Herrerias, which is found in a Pliocene bed in the form of flukes, needles and crystals.

According to Strabo he was the first to invent an anchor with two flukes.

In this condition they remain encysted as immature flukes until eaten by their final host.

TREMATODES, or flukes (as they are called from their fish-like shape), one of the three classes that compose the phylum Platyelmia.

Orders: Molles (Tape-Worms and Flukes), Rigiduli (Nematoids), Hispiduli (Nais, 'c.), Epizoariae (Lernaeans, 'c.).

Thus it is used of the purchase used in raising the flukes of an anchor to the bill-board; of a piece of wood or metal used to strengthen a sprung mast or yard; and of a plate of metal used, as in railway construction, for the strengthening of the meeting-place of two rails.

Both sides of the flippers and flukes are black.

English Channel being: length from nose to notch between the flukes of the tail, 622 in.; from the nose to the front edge of the dorsal fin, 29 in.; height of dorsal fin, 42 in.; length of base of dorsal fin, 8 in.; length of pectoral fin, 94 in.; breadth of pectoral fin, 32 in.; breadth of tail flukes, 13 in.

Synonyms:

flue, projection, anchor, ground tackle,

Antonyms:

unfasten,