gill
ചെകിള
definition
verb
Immediately after this, gut and gill all fish you wish to eat.
gut or clean (a fish).
catch (a fish) in a gill net.
noun
Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their gills .
the paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx.
An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has gills in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.
the vertical plates arranged radially on the underside of mushrooms and many toadstools.
translation of 'gill'
noun
ചെകിള
example
A tot is a sixth, a fifth, a quarter or a third of a 'gill' of whisky.
Rustic enough that the notice over the bar still claimed to serve spirits in measures of 1/6 'gill' .
It's lovely, you sort of follow a 'gill' that has alders like the River Cover, but almost different trees, small and gnarled and ancient looking.
At school we had a free 'gill' of milk each morning break as part of the government's plan to build a nation of healthy young things.
Immediately after this, gut and 'gill' all fish you wish to eat.
Her cheese pudding has an ounce and a half of breadcrumbs, an ounce of cheese, one 'gill' of milk and half an egg.
Fish, for example, pump water across their 'gills' with their head muscles.
When you see an aquarium fish gulping water, or ‘making a gookie,’ you will also see the gill cover opening and the gills fluttering, as water is drawn over the 'gills' and the fish breathes.
A small whole bass of anything up to about four pounds gets scaled when caught, 'gilled' and gutted.
When in the water, they breathe with their 'gills' as most fish do.
Fish start to suffocate out of water and their 'gills' may collapse and bleed.
In some forms the 'gills' were able to remain moist and so allow the animal to move about on land for short periods.
From the early 10th cent. there was considerable Norse settlement, from Ireland and the Isle of Man, leaving evidence in words like fell, 'ghyll' , tarn, and how.
In fishes there is equivalent ‘ventilation’ of the 'gills' with water.
An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has 'gills' in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.
After sampling the cheese, walk to the neighbouring village of Hardraw, which is Old English for ‘shepherd's dwelling ’, and view Hardraw Force where Hearne Beck plunges nearly 100 ft into the deep 'ghyll' below.
In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear 'gills' and are used for gas exchange.
Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their 'gills' .
The sets of weights were once the work tools of the county's pound police where they were used to measure the pounds, ounces, quarters and 'gills' of an untold number of items.
Otherwise they have to keep swimming to force oxygenated water past their 'gills' .
A female ferret is called a 'jill' while a male is called a hob.
In an attempt to sell it all, he would visit motor camps, his car towing a trailer loaded with iced, 'gilled' and gutted fish and him shouting, ‘fresh snapper for sale!’
A man who failed to return home from a walk in the Helvellyn area spent the night under a bush in a 'ghyll' as 32 rescuers from three areas searched the entire range for him.
Fish with torn 'gills' die as inevitably as you would if your lungs were shredded.
In any fish, when blood cycles through the 'gills' to receive oxygen, it also cools to the temperature of the surrounding water.
At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the 'gills' and mouths of fishes much larger than they are.
White-tailed eagles, which inhabit the same territory, may struggle for hours merely to pry an opening around a fish's 'gills' or front fin.
Notice the three large 'gills' that the animal uses to ‘breathe’ in its underwater environment.
Look for the white cap, stout white stem which detaches easily from the cap, and the pink 'gills' , which turn brown as the mushroom matures.
They are quite unlike the radiating ribs of ordinary mushrooms, but serve the same function, i.e. they constitute the 'gills' on which the spores are carried.
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