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Definition of Gunnel
1. Noun. Wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel.
2. Noun. Small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic.
Generic synonyms: Blennioid, Blennioid Fish
Group relationships: Family Pholidae, Family Pholididae, Pholidae
Specialized synonyms: Butterfish, Pholis Gunnellus, Rock Gunnel
Definition of Gunnel
1. n. A gunwale.
Definition of Gunnel
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of gunwale) ¹
2. Noun. A small eel-shaped marine fish of the genus ''Muraenoides'', especially ''M. gunnellus''; the gunnel fish, butterfish, or rock eel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gunnel
1. a marine fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gunnel
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1. A gunwale.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunnel
Literary usage of Gunnel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"... О gunnel], son of ' The Liberator." The club had literary aims. At first its
members prepared and ¡>sued ..."
2. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1865)
"Nothing is said in the poem to settle the question ; but in the cases of gunnel
and Honeyman, notoriously actors of considerable eminence, ..."
3. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"... throughout the whole length of the vessel, a wooden bulwark, rising considerably
above the gunnel, sheltered the rowers, who sat behind it, ..."
4. The Life-histories of the British Marine Food-fishes by William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman (1897)
"THE gunnel. (Pholis gunnellus, L.) Like the viviparous blenny, ... Unlike the
former, however, the milt of the gunnel is also single. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"10 GUNWALE, or gunnel, OF A SHIP, is that piece of timber which reaches, on either
side of ... gunnel ..."
6. The Charles Men by Verner von Heidenstam (1920)
"gunnel the Stewardess IN a ... of the fortress at Riga, gunnel the stewardess,
an old woman of eighty, sat and spun. Her long arms were veinous and sinewy, ..."
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