Word Meanings - FISHGIG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish. Knight.

Related words: (words related to FISHGIG)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• BARBADIAN
  Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n.
• BARBITON
  An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
• BARBARIAN
  1. A foreigner. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 2. A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. 3. A person destitute of culture.
• BARBACANAGE
  See BARBICANAGE
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• BARBELLULATE
  Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
• BARBEL
  A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.
• BARBICEL
  One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.
• BARBLE
  See BARBEL
• SPEARMAN
  One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23.
• BARBARITY
  The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization. 2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay. 3. A barbarous or cruel act. 4. Barbarism; impurity of speech.
• BARBER FISH
  See FISH
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• SPEARHEAD
  The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
• SPEARWORT
  A name given to several species of crowfoot which have spear-shaped leaves.
• SPEARY
  Having the form of a spear.
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
• BARBADOS; BARBADOES
  A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry , a genus of trees of the West Indies with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg , a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• RHABARBARIN; RHABARBARINE
  Chrysophanic acid.
• REBARBARIZE
  To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion, n. Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DEBARB
  To deprive of the beard. Bailey.
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.