Gale vs Gill - What's the difference?
gale | gill |
To sing; charm; enchant.
* Court of Love
To cry; groan; croak.
To talk.
(intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
To sing; utter with musical modulations.
(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
An outburst, especially of laughter.
(archaic) A light breeze.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) A song or story.
(nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
A shrub, also sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale ) growing on moors and fens.
(archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
(animal anatomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
* Ray
(of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
(mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne.
(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.
To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
* 2014 , Scott Tippett, Polaris (ISBN 1304268179), page 99:
(lb) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
* 1898 , Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor , page 255:
* 1971 , Michael Culley, ?G. A. Kerkut, The Pilchard: Biology and Exploitation (ISBN 1483186784), page 70:
* 1994 , G.D. Pickett, ?M.G. Pawson, Sea Bass: Biology (ISBN 0412400901), page 177:
(lb) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
* 2010 , Edward A. Perrine, Midnight Tracy (ISBN 0557472334), page 147:
A drink measure for spirits and wine. Size varies regionally but it is about one quarter of a pint.
(archaic, British) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
As nouns the difference between gale and gill
is that gale is (label) (ship propelled primarily by oars) while gill is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.As a proper noun gill is
.gale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) galen, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
- Can he cry and gale .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a gale of laughter
- A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
- And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.
- (Toone)
Coordinate terms
* (meteorology) breeze, hurricane, stormSee also
* Beaufort scaleVerb
(gal)Etymology 3
(etyl) (en)Noun
(Myrica gale) (Webster 1913)Etymology 4
(etyl)Noun
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
References
Anagrams
* ----gill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills .
- Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills .
- (Jonathan Swift)
Synonyms
* (mycology) lamellaDerived terms
* green about the gills * to the gillsSee also
* lungVerb
(en verb)- She gutted and gilled the fish, then scaled it.
- 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 .
- In cases of very heavy catches the nets may be hauled and stored with the fish still gilled . The fish would then be shaken out on return to the port.
- The intention is to gill the fish, so they are usually scared into the net by rowing one boat into the middle of the net circle and banging the oars on the boat bottom or splashing the water.
- Also, when fish gilled there wasn't as much extra twine to tangle in, so they were easier to release from the net.