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Fish in Webster's 1913 dictionary

The 1913 record labels fish as noun. Its source-bounded etymology and selected historical definition appear below.

WEBSTER 1913noun

Fish

[F. fiche peg, mark, fr. fisher to fix.]

Cross-verified historical sense

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Cross-verified 1913 record

Headwordfish

Part of speechnoun

Historical etymology[F. fiche peg, mark, fr. fisher to fix.]

Selected historical definitionA counter, used in various games.

Signed record IDwebster1913-fish-noun-b1dfd04c29a0

Source locatorCIDE.F, paragraph 4059; Gutenberg eBook 663

Edition-scoped answerNot earliest-attestation proofNot modern consensus

Independent historical textProject Gutenberg section 663 Signed structural record sourceGNU GCIDE 0.54 archive

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In Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), "fish" is labeled noun. Its etymology is recorded as: "[F. fiche peg, mark, fr. fisher to fix.]" The selected historical definition says: "A counter, used in various games."

Project Gutenberg Webster 1913 plus signed GNU GCIDE 0.54 Exact cross-verified historical record reviewed 2026-10-04

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