gill
/ɡɪl/ noun B2- A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- A gill slit or gill cover. · Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.
- One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
- The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
- One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
Plural gills
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Eschewing the ostentatious, illustrated dust jackets of the era, Young devised a brilliantly minimalist, color-coded grid utilizing the elegantly modern Gill Sans typeface.
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