gill

About 3.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
2. noun A gill slit or gill cover.

   Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.

3. noun One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
4. noun The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
5. noun The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
6. noun One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
7. verb To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
8. verb To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.

Similar words

branchia lamella branchial gillnet mesh generation jel jill gil goodwin

Often followed by

and of slits nets rakers net was arches is

Word family

Gill Gills gilled giller gillers gilling gills