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Gill usually acts most efficiently.
Conservation groups agree that, instead of being beneficial, gill plates may be harmful to human health because they contain arsenic, cadmium, and other lethal metals.
Fishes […] perform their respiration under water by the gills.
Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.
dropsy fills you to the gills
As we had fish home in the icebox, when Bill led the fish up alongside, I leaned over the combing, gilled the fish with my fingers, slid out the hook and let go. The bass lay there for a moment, tired from the arch of the rod and the pull of the line.
She gutted and gilled the fish, then scaled it.
Owing to the peculiar shape of the pompano and the relatively large mesh in the pompano gill nets, the fish are not caught by being actually gilled.
In cases of very heavy catches the nets may be hauled and stored with the fish still gilled. The fish would then be shaken out on return to the port.
The intention is to gill the fish, so they are usually scared into the net by rowing one boat into the middle of the net circle and banging the oars on the boat bottom or splashing the water.
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Since the fine threads of the net usually are caught under the gill covers of the fish they are said to be "gilled."
Also, when fish gilled there wasn't as much extra twine to tangle in, so they were easier to release from the net.
Gill comes from the Knight, that did so seek / To gaine her love; she's hir'd for a week.
Comme proprement le fine of my Designs dey make; / Dam gilling Whore / Et Louis d'or
each Jack with his Gill
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