She said Mitt Romney and President Obama envision two entirely different futures for women's health. Georgetown University law graduate and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Women's rights activist Sandra Fluke spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention describing two possible futures for women she has heard throughout the presidential campaign period. Sandra Fluke 's Democratic National Convention speech. Īttorney and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke speaks at the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena in downtown Charlotte, N.C. I caught most of Sandra Fluke 's speech to the DNC. Ĭould Sandra Fluke be the Anita Hill of the early 21st century. See cuts under cercaria and Trematoda.Ī result of accident or lucky chance rather than of skill.Ī failure, as of a yacht-race for lack of wind. crassum the fluke infesting the blood is D. lanceolatum the broad fluke of China is D. The common fluke is Fasciola hepatica the liver-fluke is Distoma hepaticum the lancet-shaped fluke is D. There are numerous species, of several genera. In Northumberland, the common flounder, Pleuronectes flesus, called in Moray Frith fresh-water fleuk and bigger fleuk.Ī trematoid worm an entozoic parasitic worm of the order Trematoidea, infesting various parts of man and other animals, especially the liver, bile-ducts, etc.: so called from the resemblance of its hydatid to a fluke or flounder. See fluke, n., 5.Ī name given locally in Great Britain to species of flatfish. To gain an advantage over a competitor or opponent by accident or chance especially, to make a scratch in billiards. In whaling, to use the flukes, as a fish or cetacean: often with an indefinite it. To fasten, as a whale, by means of a chain or rope. In whaling: To disable the flukes of, as a whale, by spading. Hence- To become refractory or mutinous make a disturbance on board ship. ![]() ![]() In billiards, an accidentally successful stroke the advantage gained when, playing for one thing, one gets another hence, any unexpected or accidental advantage or turn a chance a scratch. In mining, an instrument used to clean a hole previous to charging it with powder for blasting. The flukes of a large whale may be sometimes 20 feet between their extremities, though 12 to 15 feet is a more frequent measurement. One of the barbs of a harpoon or toggle-iron a flue: called by English whalemen wither.Įither half of the tail of a cetacean or sirenian: so called from its resemblance to the fluke of an anchor. Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format.The part of an anchor which catches in the ground. (It is no fluke that Jackie Strauss supplied us with this lovely native English word: she has suggested many just as good over the past few years.) I can only speculate as a surf and pier fisherman in coastal North Carolina, where fishermen never fish for flounder (flounder are gigged) but occasionally they catch one. The third meaning is something of a mystery. In the 8th century it referred to flatfish but its meaning migrated to the barbs on anchors by analogy with the shape of flounders. Fluke is the native English version of the same PIE root. It also was adjusted to flaga "flat stone" in Norwegian, taken over by English as flag and flagstone. Word History: The original word from which the three meanings above derived was Proto-Indo-European plak- "flat", which shows up in Norwegian flak "flat piece", borrowed by English as flake. In Play: I like using this word to describe the tails of whales: "A huge sperm whale surfaced to express her enormousness to the world, gave a great wave of her fluke, then disappeared again into the profound chill of the Pacific." However, it is most alluring when referring to the accidental and unpredictable: "It would have been an unbearable day on the beach without the occasional flukes of wind that presumptuously riffled her hair." This word, of course, opens the door to flukiness, which we are also free to use. The adjective fluked and its antonym flukeless refer to having or not having flat barbs, while fluky means either "infested with flatworms" or "accidental, fortuitous". ![]() Notes: So long as we resist the temptation to spell this word flook, it presents no problems other than keeping its fluky meanings straight. A large flat barb-like object, such as the blade at either end of an anchor or a whale's tail. A flounder or other flatfish, or a flatworm, such as a liver fluke.
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