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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (animal anatomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- A drink measure for spirits and wine. Size varies regionally but it is about one quarter of a pint.
- (British) rivulet
- A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
- (Scotland) A leech.
- (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
- (archaic, British) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
- (British) ravine
- (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne.
- (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
- (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
Verbit
- To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
- (transitive) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
- (intransitive) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
Esimerkit
- Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills.
- Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.
- She gutted and gilled the fish, then scaled it.
- 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.
- Also, when fish gilled there wasn't as much extra twine to tangle in, so they were easier to release from the net.
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