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gunnel
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gunnel has 2 senses
- gunnel(n = noun.artifact) gun rest, gunwale - wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel; Array is a kind of strake, wale
- gunnel(n = noun.animal) bracketed blenny - small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic; Array is a kind of blennioid, blennioid fish
is a member of family pholidae, family pholididae, pholidae
has particulars: butterfish, pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel
CIDE DICTIONARY
gunnel, n. [See Gunwale.].
- A gunwale. [1913 Webster]
- A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus
Murænoides ; esp.,M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called alsogunnel fish ,butterfish ,rock eel . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gunnel, n. any small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, esp. Pholis gunnellus. Also called BUTTERFISH.
gunnel, gunner n.
1 an artillery soldier (esp. as an official term for a private).
2 Naut. a warrant-officer in charge of a battery, magazine, etc.
3 a member of an aircraft crew who operates a gun.
4 a person who hunts game with a gun.
1 an artillery soldier (esp. as an official term for a private).
2 Naut. a warrant-officer in charge of a battery, magazine, etc.
3 a member of an aircraft crew who operates a gun.
4 a person who hunts game with a gun.
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