gill

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
    — Fishes […] perform their respiration under water by the gills.
  2. Alternative form of jill (“a female ferret”). alt-of,alternative
  3. A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
  4. A rivulet, small stream. UK
  5. A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
  6. A gill slit or gill cover.
    — Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.
  7. A promiscuous woman; harlot, wanton. obsolete
  8. A ravine. UK
  9. A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint. UK,archaic
  10. A unit of measure equal to 4 US fluid ounces (half a cup, a quarter of a US pint), approximately 118 milliliters. US,dated
  11. One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
  12. A prostitute. obsolete
    — Gill comes from the Knight, that did so seek / To gaine her love; she's hir'd for a week.
  13. The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
  14. The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle. figuratively
    — dropsy fills you to the gills
  15. One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
  2. To act as a prostitute. obsolete
    — Comme proprement le fine of my Designs dey make; / Dam gilling Whore / Et Louis d'or
  3. To catch (a fish) in a gillnet. transitive
    — 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.
  4. To be or become entangled in a gillnet. intransitive
    — Since the fine threads of the net usually are caught under the gill covers of the fish they are said to be "gilled."

词形变化

gills plural gills present,singular,third-person gilling participle,present gilled participle,past gilled past gills plural gills plural ghyll alternative gills plural gills plural gills present,singular,third-person gilling participle,present gilled participle,past gilled past

词汇关系

近义词
branchia
衍生词
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 gill-ale gillhouse gillie Lowgill Low Gill Rowlands Gill flirt-gill gill-over-the-ground
相关词
lung

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English gille, from Old French gille (“a wine measure”), from Medieval Latin gillo (“earthenware jar”).
词源 3
From Middle English gille, from Old Norse gil.
词源 4
Uncertain.
词源 5
Clipping of gillian, from the female name Gillian.
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