Word Finder - fish

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A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

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Salmon is a fish.

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Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

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The flesh of the fish used as food.

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The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.

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A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.

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A woman.

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An easy victim for swindling.

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A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

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A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.

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A purchase used to fish the anchor.

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A torpedo.

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A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

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The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

The fish flipped and dived back into the water.

I ate very small fish for supper.

You can be a cold fish, sometimes.

Did you ever hunt or fish with your father?

Alex jerked the pole, setting the hook, and then glanced at her as the fish fought for freedom.

There was not a fish in it.

Do you ever fish here?

Yup. The fish are practically jumping in the boat.

I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

He walked out again, and she tossed the fish and hid the rope, straightening just as he reappeared.

With each name, she flung a fish at him.

Fish in a barrel, he said.

There were pigs and goats on the island, and plenty of fish could be caught from the shore.

Old story-tellers say that he alighted on the back of a large fish, called a dolphin, which had been charmed by his music and was swimming near the ship.

He has to be out there, caught in the seaweed at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay, with the fish and crabs having a party, getting as bloated as the fat Wassermann twin lying on the slab at the Norfolk morgue.

Her eyes fell to the fish, and her nose wrinkled.

Large quantities of fresh fish caught in lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba are exported to all parts of the United States.

After the fish, which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with the other committeemen.

The surface of the water ruptured, spewing a colorful fish into the air.

I'll believe it when they fish his body out of the drink, which they won't, 'cause it ain't there.

According to the time-stamped dinner receipt, Byrne had dined on fish, and had two beers as Hunter had remarked.

The drinks arrived in glasses better designed for raising fish than serving alcohol—a sure hit with the traveling salesmen.

Alex had written the Game and Fish Commissions in several western states, hoping for a chance at a mountain goat or sheep.

Laristan is famous for the condiment called mahiabeh (fish-jelly), a compound of pounded small sprat-like fish, salt, mustard, nutmeg, cloves and other spices, used as a relish with nearly all foods.

Many of the rivers are well stocked with fish.

There is a considerable import of coal, cotton, iron and breadstuffs, the chief exports being butter, fish, timber and wood pulp. During the period of emigration, owing to political troubles with Russia, over 12,000 Finns sailed from Hangs in a single year (1901), mostly for the United States and Canada.

Besides the tithes dealt with by local acts as already mentioned, certain other kinds of tithes are outside the scope of the Commutation Acts, namely, tithes of fish and fishing, personal tithes other than tithes of mills, and mineral tithes, unless the landowners and tithe-owners consent to make a parochial agreement for commutation before the confirmation of an apportionment after a compulsory award in such parish.

The salt obtained from Lake Mareotis at Meks, a western suburb of Alexandria, supplies the salt needed for the country, except a small quantity used for curing fish at Lake Menzala; while the lakes in the Wadi Natron, 45 m.

I caught fish with hook and line and pole.

It is much larger, being said to contain one hundred and ninety-seven acres, and is more fertile in fish; but it is comparatively shallow, and not remarkably pure.

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

Oh, I'd love to come here and fish sometime.

Her prior night's transgressions were apparently forgotten as she and Betsy acted as compatible as guppies in a fish bowl.

I left a message, from Tommy, his so called fishing buddy, saying I had a fish story for him and requesting him to call as soon as possible.

Dusty wouldn't be there to fish her out as he had Darian.

Fred's quick enough to hear what I have to say, but tight-lipped as a smart fish about anything he knows.

Joseph was ready to end the conversation but Dean was hoping for more fish in his creel.

She knelt beside the fish and unwrapped them with a grimace, cheered to find the section of rope nearly five feet long.

If he brought her more fish tomorrow morning, she'd have rope enough to reach the cliff edge ten feet above.

She lay down on her back to watch the sun set and didn't move until he returned early the next morning to toss stinky fish beside her.

The room was straightened and the fish removed, though the scent of them lingered.

He opened the refrigerator and took out the fish that had been thawing.

Maybe I can fish around on the Internet and dig up some poop.

Give him a week and he'll float in somewhere down south of here if the fish don't eat him first.

Sometime she would have to get out the old cane pole and fish like she used to.

Josh and Lori had helped her search for crawdads back then, but they weren't using them for fish bait.

It is the largest peanut market in the world, is in a great truck-gardening region, and makes large shipments of cotton (822,930 bales in 1905), oysters, coal, fertilizers, lumber, grain, fruits, wine, vegetables, fish and live stock.

Fish abound in its waters, which are sweet, save at low-level, when they become brackish.

A gate in the valley, known as the Fish Gate, opened on a road which, leading from the north, went down the Tyropoeon valley to the southern part of the city.

No word exists in their language for such general terms as tree, bird or fish; yet they have invented a name for every species of vegetable and animal they know.