Definition of fish

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Fish (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..

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Gridiron :: Gridiron (n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
Swordick :: Swordfish (n.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1..
Churl :: Churl (n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
Pirn :: Pirn (n.) A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod..
Interrenal :: Interrenal (a.) Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes..
Ospray :: Ospray (n.) The fishhawk.
Garrupa :: Garrupa (n.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish..
Ichthus :: Ichthus (n.) In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words /, /, / /, /, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior..
Bichir :: Bichir (n.) A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
Truttaceous :: Truttaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind..
Haaf :: Haaf (n.) The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles..
Actinost :: Actinost (n.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
Garum :: Garum (n.) A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
Corkwing :: Corkwing (n.) A fish; the goldsinny.
Lance Fish :: Lance fish () A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance..
Snakefish :: Snakefish (n.) The lizard fish.
Bob :: Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Gaper :: Gaper (n.) A European fish. See 4th Comber.
Conodont :: Conodont (n.) A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids..
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