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4 Letter Words for Shad
dahs, dash, hads, sadh, shad
3 Letter Words for Shad
adh, ads, ahs, ash, dah, das, dha, had, has, sad, sah, sha
Definitions for Shad
[1] a deep-bodied herring, Alosa sapidissima, of Europe and North America, that migrates up streams to spawn, used for food.
[2] any other fish of the genus Alosa or related genera.
[3] any of several unrelated fishes.
[4] any of various herring-like food fishes of the genus Alosa and related genera, such as A. alosa (allis shad ) of Europe, that migrate from the sea to freshwater to spawn: family Clupeidae (herrings)
[5] any of various similar but unrelated fishes
Words nearby Shad
shackle, shackleton, shacko, shackup, shacky, shad, shadberry, shadbolt, shadbush, shadchan, shaddai
Origin of Shad
before 1050; Old English sceadd (not recorded in ME)
Word origin for Shad
Old English sceadd; related to Norwegian skadd, German Schade shad, Old Irish scatān herring, Latin scatēre to well up