What is one of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor called?
fluke — (Zoöl.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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