Previously, however, to uniting the arms or flukes with the stump arms, the crown and throat of the anchor are to be strengthened, by the application of the crown slabs n n, fig.
The arms and flukes are made, as before described, of the straight fibre of the iron punched through, and the flukes are fixed to the spindle, which passes through the crown-piece.
In this form a guard is introduced at the crown, to answer the purpose of a stock, by turning the flukes over into a holding position.
His mode of uniting the flukes to the crown is probably the most valuable part of his invention.
The palms are united to the flukes in the usual way, and the flukes are also united to the stump arms by means of the long scarfs m m.
The dead strain upon the anchor is thus greatly reduced, and the sudden pull by which the flukes or arms are readily snapped is in a great measure obviated.
The shank is seen upright, with one of the flukes projecting in its front; the horizontal iron stock is at bottom; and the oblique braces are bolted to both shank and stock.
A projection in the centre of the arms works in a recess at the hub of the shank: the vacancies outside the shank are filled by blocks bolted through on each side, and are flush with the side plates, which keep the flukes in position.
A palm is cast on each side of the crown to trip the flukes when the anchor is on the ground, and for bringing them snug against the ship's side when weighing.
Defn: A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale.
Defn: Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
If flukes were present, it was evident that, in order to strike at the root of the malady, they must get rid of these entozoa, and that could only be effected by bringing about a healthy condition of the system.
Flukes are oviparous; their ova mingle with the biliary secretion, and thus find their way out of the intestinal canal into the soil; as in the feculent matter of rotten sheep may be found millions of flukes.
Those persons who supposedflukes to be the cause of rot had, perhaps, some reason for that opinion.
Then the monster threw his flukes into the air and down he sounded towards the depths of the sea.
Jo had the closest call, for one of the flukes of the whale's tail swept a huge wave over him, and he thought he was going to be carried to the bottom of the ocean.
The great tail caught one shark and he hurtled through the flying spray with a broken back; the flukes crashed down on a second as he struck the water.
Once more the head went down and the flukes raised themselves, lashing the air in frantic desperation.
In desperation the whale would stand on its head and beat the air in terrific blows with its flukes while the sharks would merely wait till the flurry was over and then renew their steady, wearing, pounding battle.
But I am anticipating, and must hark back to the anchor with the flukes of pearl.
The high percentage of cottonmouths infested with flukes is indicative of the use of frogs as a major source of food.
Upon examination of the mouth, 32 flukes were found, most of which were located in the Jacobson's organs.
Whether or not flukes caused the death is not known.
Less than ten flukes were usually observed in the snakes' mouths but occasionally more were seen.
What the state of the liver is which is attended with flukes and hydatids, he has left us to make out.
This I have proved by numerous dissections, in which I have occasionally found tubercles without flukes, but never met with flukes where I did not at the same time discover tubercles.
From a consideration of all these data, the conclusion must at once be drawn, that as living flukes cannot reach the liver from without, they must of a necessity be produced only in particular states of the animal they inhabit.
Flukes are never found in the arteries of the liver, as has been erroneously stated by some writers, their abode being limited to the gall bladder and its ducts.
Ho, yes, quite sartin, for I've got a knot on my head this day where the tip of its flukes came down on me.
The men obeyed, and the boat was backed off the whale just in time to escape the blow of its tremendous flukes as it dived into the sea, the blue depths of which were instantly dyed red with the blood that flowed in torrents from the wound.
At eight o'clock the next morning we got underweigh; but the Dick in weighing her anchor found both flukes broken off.
His nose, which was no small one, had been knocked on one side, as he told me, by the flukes (i.
Nothing there seeming to interest him, he turned with a disdainful sweep of his huge flukes and bored his way slowly downwards toward the unknown deep whence he had so mysteriously come.
Then the fins and flukes heaved together, the long bulk shot forward and upward, and the living saw cut straight across the belly of the shark, deeply and cleanly, under the urge of that tremendous thrust.
Down goes her head, and she throws her flukes up in the air.
Harry Briggs, look alive, and drop the flukes overboard; make fast, and let us swing.
After the last blow of a series or when the animals are startled by a boat, they may show the tail flukes as they begin to dive.
Body mostly dark gray or brownish gray; undersides of flukesand flippers and belly white; grayish-white chevron frequently on back behind head.
The flukes are less than one-fifth the body length and are not notched.
No conspicuous grooves on outer surface of throat; deep median notch on rear margin of tail flukes Go to 18 13.
They have also been observed to "lobtail," raising the tail flukesabove the water and slapping them against the surface, and to jump clear of the water.
When they begin a deep dive, they often raise their tailflukes above the surface and dive nearly vertically.
Body dark gray with irregular white area on belly; flippers white; underside of flukes often has varying amounts of white.
The flukes of humpback whales show varying amounts of white beneath, are pointed on the tips, and are distinctly concaved and irregularly rippled on the rear margin.
Flukes often scalloped on trailing edges and sometimes raised on dive.
In very shallow water they may not raise the flukes at all.
Stumpy Flukes promptly retired to the extreme end of the bar, and groaned audibly.
As they rode off, Stumpy Flukes remarked: "There's a splendid shot ruined for life.
It was the hole scooped out by the flukes of the "Ramillies'" stockless anchor.
Seemingly at this season the flukesmigrate forward into the mouth of the host.
In late summer and fall the flukes are not to be found in the mouths of the live snakes.
The flukes have been seen in the live racers mostly in May, when most adults are infested with the flukes.
Most complete records of the flukes present in racers were kept in 1959.
In spring these flukes are conspicuous in the mouths of the racers, but in late summer they are not in evidence.
The following table shows the numbers of racers examined and the percentage havingflukes in that year.
Probably this is the time when the flukes breed and lay eggs; if so, the eggs would pass through the digestive tract of the snake and escape with its feces.
In any case, the adult racers are nearly all parasitized, but the flukes have not been found in those racers that were less than one year old.
Instantly the broad flukesof the tail were tossed into the air, and, for a single second, spread like a canopy over Buzzby's head.
The men backed their oars with all their might, in order to avoid the flukes of the wounded monster of the deep, as it plunged down headlong into the sea, taking the line out perpendicularly like lightning.
ABBOT-- To see a stalk with flukes Put forth a bloom?
You might pass the latter, or both, day after day and week after week, and not see a soul enter or leave the premises; all was done by correspondence and flukes and a few real good buyers in the background.
One of the flukes had caught in the chain, so that it could not strike its teeth into the bottom.
When he next appeared he rolled about a good deal and we were afraid to go close, so the second mate fired a Welsh's rocket under one of his flukes and then we all backed off.
I thought the flukes would have smashed his boat, he took such awful chances.
I examined the flukes after the blubber had been removed from them; they were like huge hands with nicely proportioned fingers.
I saw our specksioneer Lyon's boat almost smashed by one of the flukes during a flurry.
It did not go down again but rolled about so much and slapped the water with its flukes to such an extent that the boats were rather afraid of it.
There was much more danger from theflukes than the tail, as we were touching its sides with the boats.
Excepting the sublime breach-- somewhere else to be described--this peaking of the whale's flukes is perhaps the grandest sight to be seen in all animated nature.
In striking at a boat, he swiftly curves away his flukes from it, and the blow is only inflicted by the recoil.
I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's flukesabove water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor.
At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between.
When taken into the digestive tract of the animal grazing over infested ground, the immature flukes are freed by the digestive juices.
Drainage water from a pasture infested with snails harboring immature flukes is a source of infection, and should not be used as a water supply for cattle and sheep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flukes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
