fish

fish has 21 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• pl.. of Crayfish
• 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.