"Breaching" takes place when a whale leaps out of the water and falls back with a thud, "skyhopping" when it raises its head as if to look around, and "fluking" when its tail breaks the surface. ❋ Miriam Jordan (2012)
If you ask the four witnesses, they were saying that the dolphins were jumping over my head and fluking the water, slapping the water with their tails ... ❋ Unknown (2007)
What hill ar yu fluking about, ye lamelookond fyats! ❋ Unknown (2006)
It's about time people started waking up and realizing that this team isn't just some fluking Cinderella, it's a darned good baseball team, the best defense in the league ... ❋ Unknown (2003)
The note Doomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before. ❋ Golding, William, 1911- (1954)
Thus it often happened that a weak house, by fluking a victory over a strong rival, found itself, much to its surprise, in the semi-final, or sometimes even in the final. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Likely you've seen him fluking through the main street in his racer. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
But the noises outside, the loneliness of the room, the sense of sudden death fluking overhead, made me sit up again and listen intently. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
After having been in port twenty-one days, we sailed for San Pedro, where we arrived on the following day, having gone all fluking, with the weather clew of the mainsail hauled up, the yards braced in a little, and the lower studding-sails just drawing; the wind hardly shifting a point during the passage. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The night-breeze, fluking among the gullies, filled the sail at once, fell light again and left it flapping, then drew a steady breath aft, and the voices were lost in the hiss of water under the boat's stern. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
After having been in port twenty-one days, we sailed for San Pedro, where we arrived on the following day, having gone "all fluking," with the weather clew of the mainsail hauled up, the yards braced in a little, and the lower studding-sails just drawing; the wind hardly shifting a point during the passage. ❋ Unknown (1869)
She played with such judgment, indeed, that Mr. Tom at length got seriously angry, and began to hit wildly at the green ball in the savage hope of fluking it, the inevitable result being that he ran in himself twice, and departed from the game, and from the room too, saying he was going to smoke a cigar. ❋ William Black (1869)
'How it was exactly, 'continued the one-armed commander,' I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale's that went off to windward, all fluking. ❋ Unknown (1851)
There, notwithstanding his struggles and the desperate as well as dangerous fluking of his posterior fins, he was soon despatched by the axe, wielded with all the might and dexterity which the Coromantee could command. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Plash into the water went the two baited hooks, both at once; and, almost before the ripples caused by the plunge had ceased to circle upon the surface, a still louder plashing could be heard, and a much rougher ripple seen, -- in short, a large space of the surface agitated into foam, where a brace of albacores were fluking and struggling on the respective hooks of Snowball and the sailor. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
After having been in port twenty-one days, we sailed for San Pedro, where we arrived on the following day, having gone ` ` all fluking, '' with the weather clew of the mainsail hauled up, the yards braced in a little, and the lower studding-sail just drawing; the wind hardly shifting a point during the passage. ❋ Richard Henry Dana (1848)
