GILL


Meaning of GILL in English

noun a leech.

2. gill ·noun the flesh under or about the chin.

3. gill ·noun malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.

4. gill ·noun a two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.

5. gill ·noun an organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.

6. gill ·noun a woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.

7. gill ·noun a measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

8. gill ·noun a young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.

9. gill ·noun the fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

10. gill ·noun the radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.

11. gill ·noun the ground ivy (nepeta glechoma);

— called also gill over the ground, and other like names.

12. gill ·noun one of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.

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