Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the elongate blennies, found on the rocky coasts of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, belonging to the genus Pholis. The best-known of these fishes in the North Atlantic is P. gunnellus.
  • noun See gunwale.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A gunwale.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Murænoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of gunwale.
  • noun A small eel-shaped marine fish of the genus Muraenoides, especially Muraaenoides gunnellus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel
  • noun small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic

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  • Elongate blennies!

    July 30, 2012

  • Judgeing from the tweets I wasn't the only person surprised to read the BBC rendering gunnel instead of gunwale in its reporting of Coe's comment.

    July 30, 2012

  • It's also a rather common name (among women in their sixties) in Sweden...

    July 30, 2012