Usually means: Respiratory organ in aquatic animals.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. gill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gill, gill, gill, gill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gill, gill, gill, gill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gill, gill: Wordnik
  7. gill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gill, Gill: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Gill, gill: Wiktionary
  10. gill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. gill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. gill: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. gill: Dictionary.com
  14. Gill, gill (1), gill (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. gill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Gill (Street Fighter), Gill (Street Fighter character), Gill (disambiguation), Gill (mushroom), Gill (musician), Gill (name), Gill (publisher), Gill (ravine), Gill (stream), Gill (unit), Gill (volume), Gill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Gill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. gill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. gill: Rhymezone
  20. Gill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. gill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. gill: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Gill: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. gill: Free Dictionary
  25. gill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. gill: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Gill: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. gill: Idioms
  3. gill, gill: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gill: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  4. gill: Natural History Terms
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gill, gill, gill, gill, gill, gill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gill: The Folk File
  3. Gill: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
noun:  (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
noun:  (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
noun:  (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
noun:  (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
verb:  (intransitive) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
noun:  A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
noun:  (archaic, British) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
noun:  (dated, US) A unit of measure equal to 4 US fluid ounces (half a cup, a quarter of a US pint), approximately 118 milliliters.
noun:  (British) A rivulet, small stream.
noun:  (British) A ravine.
noun:  A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
noun:  A female ferret.
noun:  (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; harlot, wanton.
noun:  (obsolete) A prostitute.
verb:  (obsolete) To act as a prostitute.
noun:  A Scottish and Northern English habitational surname from Old Norse for someone who lived near a gill.
noun:  A Scottish and Irish surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic], an alternate anglicization of Mac an Ghoill (McGill).
noun:  A diminutive of the male given names Giles, Julian, or William, of medieval usage.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Gillian, variant of Jill.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
noun:  A locale in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado; named for early landowner William H. Gill.
noun:  A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts; named for Massachusetts politician Moses Gill.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia; named for an early postmaster.
noun:  A ghost town in Harding County, South Dakota; named for early postmaster Carl M. Gilberg.
noun:  A surname from Punjabi from ਗਿੱਲ (gilla).
noun:  (soccer) Someone connected with Gillingham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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