Word Finder - fishes

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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.

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A period of time spent fishing.

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The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.

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An instance of seeking something.

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Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.

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To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.

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She went to the river to fish for trout.

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To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

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They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.

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To use as bait when fishing.

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To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

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He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.

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(followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.

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The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.

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Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

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To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).

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To hoist the flukes of.

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A counter, used in various games.