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gill | hogshead |

As nouns the difference between gill and hogshead

is that gill is a breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals while hogshead is an English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52 1/2 imperial gallons; a half pipe.

As a verb gill

is to remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.

As a proper noun Gill

is {{surname|from=given names}.

gill

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (animal anatomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
  • * Ray
    • Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills .
  • (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
    • Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills .
  • (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.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
    • Synonyms
    * (mycology) lamella
    Derived terms
    * green about the gills * to the gills
    See also
    * lung

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
  • * 2014 , Scott Tippett, Polaris (ISBN 1304268179), page 99:
    • She gutted and gilled the fish, then scaled it.
  • (lb) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
  • * 1898 , Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor , page 255:
    • 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 .
  • * 1971 , Michael Culley, ?G. A. Kerkut, The Pilchard: Biology and Exploitation (ISBN 1483186784), page 70:
    • 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.
  • * 1994 , G.D. Pickett, ?M.G. Pawson, Sea Bass: Biology (ISBN 0412400901), page 177:
    • 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.
  • (lb) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
  • * 2010 , Edward A. Perrine, Midnight Tracy (ISBN 0557472334), page 147:
    • Also, when fish gilled there wasn't as much extra twine to tangle in, so they were easier to release from the net.
    Quotations
    * 1948 , Oliver Hazard Perry Rodman, The Saltwater Fisherman's Favorite Four , page 166: *: 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.
    References
    * Walter Koelz, Fishing industry of the Great Lakes (1926), page 556: Since the fine threads of the net usually are caught under the gill covers of the fish they are said to be "gilled."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) rivulet
  • (British) ravine

    • Etymology 4

    Etymology uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.

    • Etymology 5

    Alternative forms

    * gill

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A leech.
    • (Jamieson)
    ----

    hogshead

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52 1/2 imperial gallons; a half pipe.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p.205
    • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
  • A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}