gill
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
hobbies
lifestyle
mycology
natural-sciences
spinning
sports
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: From Middle English gille, gylle (“gill”), of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish gælle, Swedish gäl, Norwegian gjelle, and further to Old Norse gjǫlnar (“lips”), which also may have had the meaning of "gills" (based on Old Danish fiskegæln (“gills”)). The Old Norse word has been suggested as deriving from Proto-Germanic *gelunō (“jaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-, which would make it root-cognate to Ancient Greek χελύνη (khelúnē, “lip, jaw”), χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”).
Displaced native Old English ċīe.
Inflected forms:
form: gills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
pos: noun
examples: Fishes […] perform their respiration under water by the gills.
gloss: A gill slit or gill cover.
pos: noun
examples: Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.
gloss: One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
pos: noun
gloss: The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
pos: noun
gloss: The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: dropsy fills you to the gills
gloss: One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
pos: noun
gloss: To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
pos: verb
examples: As we had fish home in the icebox, when Bill led the fish up alongside, I leaned over the combing, gilled the fish with my fingers, slid out the hook and let go. The bass lay there for a moment, tired from the arch of the rod and the pull of the line.
She gutted and gilled the fish, then scaled it.
gloss: To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Owing to the peculiar shape of the pompano and the relatively large mesh in the pompano gill nets, the fish are not caught by being actually gilled.
In cases of very heavy catches the nets may be hauled and stored with the fish still gilled. The fish would then be shaken out on return to the port.
The intention is to gill the fish, so they are usually scared into the net by rowing one boat into the middle of the net circle and banging the oars on the boat bottom or splashing the water.
gloss: To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Since the fine threads of the net usually are caught under the gill covers of the fish they are said to be "gilled."
Also, when fish gilled there wasn't as much extra twine to tangle in, so they were easier to release from the net.
Synonyms: branchia
Related words: lung
Derived words: bluegill
book gill
brittlegill
gill arch
gill bailer
gillless
gill raker
gill trama
grease one's gills
green about the gills
greengill
green gill
pinkgill
rosegill
rustgill
sevengill
sixgill
to the gills
Translations:
lang: Breton
word: lavnennig
lang: Bulgarian
word: ламела
roman: lamela
lang: Czech
word: lupen
lang: Finnish
word: heltta
lang: French
word: lamelle
lang: Georgian
word: ჰიმენიალური შრე
roman: himenialuri šre
lang: German
word: Lamelle
lang: Hungarian
word: sugárlemez
lang: Hungarian
word: lemez
lang: Italian
word: lamella
lang: Japanese
word: 襞
roman: hida
lang: Korean
word: 주름
roman: jureum
lang: Polish
word: blaszka
lang: Portuguese
word: lâmina
lang: Russian
word: гимениа́льная пласти́нка
roman: gimeniálʹnaja plastínka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: listić
lang: Slovak
word: lupeň
lang: Spanish
word: laminilla
lang: Swedish
word: lamell
lang: Turkish
word: lamel
lang: Welsh
word: tagell