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Gunnel

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See gunwale.
  • noun. A name of the elongate blennies, found on the rocky coasts of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, belonging to the genus Pholis. The best-known of these fishes in the North Atlantic is P. gunnellus.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A gunwale.
  • noun. A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Murænoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Alternative spelling of gunwale.
  • noun. A small eel-shaped marine fish of the genus Muraenoides, especially Muraaenoides gunnellus.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel
  • noun. small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic
    • Form
    to the gunnels  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    strake  wale  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Chennai  agley  baca  becket  blinker  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gunwale  
    variant
    butterfish  gunnel fish  rock eel  
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