Definitions for the word "fin" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To carve or cut up, as a chub.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
End; conclusion; object.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The hand.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A blade of whalebone.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A feather; a spline.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 (usu. Thin) flat external organ of esp. Fish, for propelling, steering, etc. (dorsal fin). 2 similar stabilizing projection on an aircraft, car, etc. 3 underwater swimmer''s flipper. finned adj. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. slang
a hand; “come, tip us your FIN,” viz., let us shake
hands.—_Sea._
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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