The word "gill" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a part of a fish's anatomy (which is a breathing organ) or a unit of measurement for liquids (which is equal to four ounces). For example, "The bass in the lake had gills full of tiny parasites." or "He drank two gills of beer before going to bed."
According to Duff Hart-Davis's history of the island, cat hunting had already become a mixture of sport and duty by the 1820s; in the 1840s the bounty for a cat was raised from half a gill of rum to a whole gill.
Freed from the need to worry about how to make what they design, the company's engineers have found that the optimum shape resembles a fish gill.
Like gill slits, which derive ultimately from mammals' fishy ancestors, they betray a watery phase in elephantine evolution.This aquatic period could explain the evolution of the elephant's most characteristic feature its trunk.
Gill broke off contact, turfed the group off the club's fan forum and announced United would not deal with it again.
Mohara Gill, Head of Art at Foyles, said: "Photojournalism can often be a more effective and immediate medium for communicating a point of view or observation than the written word.
Previously best known for her successful complaint to the media regulator against writer AA Gill for a homophobic jibe, the TV presenter has become a national treasure in the space of 12 months.
Also added is the manta ray, a fish valued for its feathery gill-rakers, sought after in China as an ingredient in a health tonic.
Hypnotherapy can work for many people in overcoming shyness, says Gill Ruffles, a hypnotherapist in Bath.
Site member and reviewer KatWinter told us, "Gill Lewis makes you feel as though you are there with Scarlet and Red, fighting their fights and feeling their pain" and Lilybelle wrote "I couldn't stop reading it, and I was really upset to turn one of the last pages and find that the new chapter was in fact the epilogue".
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As Gill Lewis acknowledges, some children are already changing their worlds".
