Gill

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.

   “Fishes […] perform their respiration under water by the gills.”

2. isim A gill slit or gill cover.

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

3. isim One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
4. isim The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
5. isim The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.

   “dropsy fills you to the gills”

6. isim One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
7. fiil To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.

   “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.”

8. fiil To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.

   “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.”

9. fiil To be or become entangled in a gillnet.

   “Since the fine threads of the net usually are caught under the gill covers of the fish they are said to be "gilled."”

10. isim A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
11. isim A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
12. isim A unit of measure equal to 4 US fluid ounces (half a cup, a quarter of a US pint), approximately 118 milliliters.
13. isim A rivulet, small stream.
14. isim A ravine.
15. isim A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
16. isim Alternative form of jill (“a female ferret”).
17. isim A promiscuous woman; harlot, wanton.
18. isim A prostitute.

    “Gill comes from the Knight, that did so seek / To gaine her love; she's hir'd for a week.”

19. fiil To act as a prostitute.

    “Comme proprement le fine of my Designs dey make; / Dam gilling Whore / Et Louis d'or”

20. özel isim A Scottish and Northern English habitational surname from Old Norse for someone who lived near a gill.
21. özel isim A Scottish and Irish surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic], an alternate anglicization of Mac an Ghoill (McGill).
22. özel isim A diminutive of the male given names Giles, Julian, or William, of medieval usage.
23. özel isim A diminutive of the female given name Gillian, variant of Jill.

    “each Jack with his Gill”

24. özel isim A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
25. özel isim An unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado; named for early landowner William H. Gill.
26. özel isim A township in Sullivan County, Indiana.
27. özel isim A township in Clay County, Kansas.
28. özel isim A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts; named for Massachusetts politician Moses Gill.
29. özel isim An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Texas.
30. özel isim An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia; named for an early postmaster.