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Fin
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
(2):
(n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
(3):
(n.) A blade of whalebone.
(4):
(n.) End; conclusion; object.
(5):
(n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
(6):
(n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
(7):
(n.) A feather; a spline.
(8):
(n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
(9):
(n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
(10):
(n.) The hand.
(11):
(v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.
(12):
(n.) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fin'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/fin.html. 1828.
