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Giller

//ɡɪlə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who gills fish. obsolete

    "It is one of the improvements of the times ; it enables the poor man, with hardly anything, to go to work on his own resources, and with his boat and net to follow the fish as they travel from place to place in search of food or to spawn. In this pursuit the giller comes in contact with the seinehauler, and certainly encroaches upon his rights."

Etymology

From Middle English giller. Equivalent gill + -er.

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