fish
/fɪʃ/ noun C2- A period of time spent fishing. · The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
- An instance of seeking something. · Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
Plural fishes
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Then suddenly he hauled something in as a fisherman lands a fish—some large, round object which obscured the light as it was dragged through the open casement.
Picture to yourself the pilot fish with the shark, the jackal with the lion—anything that is insignificant in companionship with what is formidable: not only formidable, Watson, but sinister—in the highest degree sinister.
The latter seemed to have resigned himself; he drew the corks, and partook largely of the fish with the garlic and fat.
When they had dragged the nets to the shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and stones, and the men were beyond measure cast down so much at the disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had formed such very different expectations.
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