How to pronounce “gill”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
• (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
• (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
• (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.
• [Verb]
• 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.

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