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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1800

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¶FLUKE, n.² The bill of a duck.Sc. c.1800 J. Maidment Sc. Ballads (1859) 156:
Froggy he swam down the brook, the drake he catched him in his fluke.

[Cf. Eng. fluke, one of the grapnels of an anchor, part of a whale's tail, anything of a similar shape, phs. the same word as Fleuk, n.¹]

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