Dictionary Entry
gill
gill is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
- 2noun
The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
- 3noun
The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- 4noun
The flesh under or about the chin.
- 5noun
One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- 6noun
A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
- 7noun
A leech.
- 8noun
A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.
- 9noun
A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.
- 10noun
A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.
- 11noun
The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
- 12noun
Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
- 13noun
respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
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- 14noun
any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
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- 15noun
a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
- 16noun
a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
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