fish vs search out

fish

verb
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

search out

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