Home › Words › F › fishspearfishspearfishspear means A spear for catching fish.EtymologyFrom fish + spear.nounA spear for catching fish.e.g.“He went outside and aimed a fishspear in the direction of the noise.” — 2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.spearfisherman 72% match — A male spearfisher. vs fishspear →spearo 71% match — A spearfisher. vs fishspear →eelspear 71% match — A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels. vs fishspear →spearfish 70% match — Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill. vs fishspear →bowfish 64% match — To fish with a bow. vs fishspear →speared 64% match — Wielding a spear. vs fishspear →spearer 63% match — One who uses a spear. vs fishspear →spearlet 61% match — A small spear. vs fishspear →