A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
A woman.
The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
A male homosexual; a gay man.
An easy victim for swindling.
A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
The flesh of the fish used as food.
Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
Cod; codfish.
Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
A period of time spent fishing.
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.
An instance of seeking something.
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).
To use as bait when fishing.
To hoist the flukes of.
To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.
One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.
To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.