Gills is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GILLS in dictionary:

VERB:
• GILL, to catch fish in a gillnet
• gut or clean (a fish).
• catch (a fish) in a gill net.
PLURAL NOUN:
• breathing organs in fish and other water creatures
NOUN:
• the paired respiratory organ of fish and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx.
• an organ in an invertebrate animal with a similar function to gills in fish and amphibians.
• the vertical plates arranged radially on the underside of mushrooms and many toadstools.
• the wattles or dewlap of a domestic fowl.
• a unit of liquid measure, equal to a quarter of a pint.
• a deep ravine, especially a wooded one.
• a narrow mountain stream.
• a female ferret.
• a young woman.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to catch fish with a type of net

Words related to GILLS

gill5 gilled8 gilling9

Words that contain GILLS

bluegills12 aspergills13

How to use GILLS in a sentence

• What makes the water move in that way? The gills are covered with very tiny lashes, like little hairs.
• There are so many of them that, as they keep moving, they force the water along, over the gills and towards the mouth.
• Four tiny legs appeared from under its skin, the gills gave place to air-breathing lungs, and the infant lips to a great, gaping mouth.
• His thin nostrils were working like the gills of a fish.
• But in general they were thrown carelessly on the deck, with a string passed through their gills to keep them from straying out of their proper lots.
• Sometimes I please myself with the idea that I have landed an actual living fish, small, perhaps, but with rosy gills and silvery scales.
• As thus arranged, the gills are really not active workers after their first draw during the remainder of their traverse, but simply carriers of the wool to the next set.
• The gills in the second set begin their journey at a pace which slightly exceeds that at which those of the first finish their traverse.
• A fish takes the water in through his mouth continually, and it runs over his gills, and out behind through his gill-covers.
• Thus set, and set in the evening, since salmon can only be taken by the gills in the dark, fisherman, launch, and net drift with the changing tides till dawn.
• This oxygen is taken into the system, in all higher animals, by means of lungs or gills.
• You must use skill to tire your fish out or by keeping his gills open to drown him.
• I drew it up, with the fish caught through the gills.
• Before any was given to the chief, two of his servants eat the gills, without any other dressing, besides squeezing out the slime.
• Near the base of the tail two minute legs grow out from the hinder part of the body, and while these are enlarging two front legs make their appearance a little behind the gills.
• In the early stage the larvae possess gills and can therefore live in water, while in later stages they have no gills and breathe through their lungs.
• It is said if salt is sprinkled on the gills and they become yellow the mushroom is poisonous, if black, they are wholesome.
• The death of the fish in their practised hands was almost instantaneous, and seemed caused by merely holding them by the tail with the gills immersed.
• Cut off the head and fins, make an opening from the gills halfway down the lower part of the body, scrape out the entrails and every particle of blood.
• Fish are judged by the liveliness of their eyes, and bright red of their gills.
• Lew drew it to the bank and thrust a finger into its gills.
• The Eel became bloodshot about the gills, and, writhing, gasped for breath.
• TO OPEN FISH To open small fish cut under the gills and squeeze out the contents by pressing upward from the middle with the thumb and finger.
• Then slip the knife under the skin that lies over the bony part of the gills and work slowly toward the tail.
• His colour, in midsummer, is a golden gray, darker on the back, and with a few black spots just behind his gills, like patches put on to bring out the pallor of his complexion.
• Peckaby, with white gills and hair raised up on end, stood, the picture of fear, gazing at the damage, but too much afraid to start out and prevent it.
• A warm-blooded animal, breathing with lungs, and not with gills, like a fish, the whale is obliged to come to the surface of the water periodically to breathe.

Similar words containing GILL without suffix s

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