Definitions for Gill

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Gill gill

Spelling: [gil]

IPA: /gɪl/

Gill is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in Gill (gill).

Definitions for Gill

noun

1. the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
2. Also called lamella. one of the radiating vertical plates on the underside of the cap of an agaric mushroom.
3. ground ivy.
4. a unit of liquid measure equal to ¼ pint (118.2937 ml).
5. a deep rocky cleft or wooded ravine forming the course of a stream.
6. a stream; brook; rivulet.
7. a girl or young woman; sweetheart.
8. a faller used in the combing process, generally for only the highest-quality fibers.
9. a male given name.
10. a female given name.

Idioms

1. to catch (fish) by the gills in a gill net.
2. green / white around the gills, somewhat pale, as from being sickly, nervous, or frightened:
3. to the gills, Informal. fully; completely; totally:

verb (used with object)

1. to gut or clean (fish).
2. to comb (fibers) with a gill.

Origin of Gill

1300-50; Middle English gile Scandinavian; compare Old Norse gjǫlnar *gelnō; cognate with Swed gäl, Danish gælle, Norwegian gjelle gill

Examples for Gill

Getting to the ceremony proved another huge challenge for gill.

Had she really leased the Barn to this man gill: and if so, for what term?

Was it the backwater of my disgrace, I wonder, that has overwhelmed poor gill?'

Mr. gill had the house for eight years, and was the last landlord.

“I feel sorry for what she did to Russ and his daughter,” gill said.

Forget Los Angeles, gill and Li currently have no plans to move to London where rent is so much more expensive than in Manchester.

Boil half-a-pound of lump sugar in a gill of water until melted.

A week later gill, 32, was taking a break in the Lake District, a picturesque sweep of mountains outside Manchester.

“She was hot-headed, had her own way of doing things,” gill said—and so, he left to form a separate militia group.

The injury was too grave: gill's life, as the doctor's certificate will prove, was in danger.