flipper vs gill

flipper

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

noun
  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

gill

verb
  • To catch (a fish) in a gillnet. 

  • To be or become entangled in a gillnet. 

  • To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it. 

noun
  • A gill slit or gill cover. 

  • One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. 

  • The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle. 

  • One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs. 

  • A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals. 

  • ravine 

  • a two-wheeled frame for transporting timber 

  • rivulet 

  • a female ferret 

  • The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle. 

  • A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally. 

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