gunwale ( w silent), gunnal, gunnel,

[Eng. gun, and wale (q. v.).] The upper planking covering the timber-heads round the ship; a piece of timber around the top side of a boat, and having rowlocks for the oars. "The first rope going athwart from gunnal to gunnal." -Dampier: Voyage (an. 1699). *gürge, s. [Lat. gurges.] A whirlpool, an eddy. "The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out." Milton: P. L., xii. 41. *gürge, v . t . [GURGE, 8.] To swallow up; to overwhelm. "In gurging gulfe of these such surging seas, My poorer soule who drowned doth death request." Mirror for Magistrates , p. 227. gür-gi-on, 8. [Fr. grugeons, from gruger =to crush.] [GRUDGINGS.] The coarser part of meal, sifted from the bran.