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fish definition and meaning

n. A counter, used in various games.
pl. of Fish
n. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
n. An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
n. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
n. The flesh of fish, used as food.
n. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
n. A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
v. i. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
v. i. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
v. t. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
v. t. To search by raking or sweeping.
v. t. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
v. t. To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

Crossword clues for fish

- Angle
- Aquatic animal
- Aquatic creature
- Found in a fine kettle?
- Gilled animal
- Limbless vertebrate
- Sea creature
- Seafood
- Seek compliments, from an angle
- Seek indirectly