gillnet (gilnet)

A net which catches fish by the gills. A gill-net is set in the form of a curtain, suspended vertically from floats on the surface of the water by means of metallic weights or bullets. The meshes of the net are of such size as to catch by its gills a fish which tries to force its way through, the fish being prevented from advancing by the narrowne of the meshes, and from backing out by the impo ibility of working the protecting plates of the gills over the twine of the meshes. gill-netter (gil'net"èr), n. One who owns or uses gill-nets. IMG:content-2296.png:[blocks in formation] Encyc. Brit., XVI. 688. A ctenidium. One of a series of gill-plume (gil'plöm), n. gill-raker (gil'ra kér), n. cartilaginous or o eous proce es which generally arm the inner edge or surface of a gillarch of ordinary fishes, and are arranged in a single row on each such arch. See cut under gill1. This Labrador form has a larger number of gill - rakers than the common fontinalis, and there seem to be fewer tubes in the lateral line; so that we may be obliged to consider it as a species distinct from fontinalis. Science, V. 424. gillravage, gill ravager. See gilravage , gilrar IMG:content-2297.png:[blocks in formation] gilthead generally, if not always, to include the idea of a wasteful use of food, and of an intemperate use of strong drink" (Jamie son), and may come Muckle din an' loud gilraivitch was aniang them, gaffawan an' lauch an. Edinburgh Mag . , Sept., 1818, p. 155. gilravage, gillravage (gil-rav'āj), v . i.; pret. and pp. gilravaged , gillravaged , ppr. gilravag ing, gillravaging. [ gilravage , n.] To commit wild and lawle depredation; plunder; spoil. [Scotch.] At all former banquets, it had been the custom to galravitch both at hack and manger, in a very expensive manner to the funds of the town. Galt, The Provost, p. 316.