Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Gunnel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gunnel \Gun"nel\, n. [See {Gunwale}.]
1. A gunwale.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus
Mur[ae]noides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America;
-- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gunwale \Gun"wale\, n. [Gun + wale. So named because the upper
guns were pointed from it.] (Naut.)
The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost
wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of
timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to
the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the
upper works of the hull. [Written also {gunnel}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gunnel
n 1: wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a
wooden vessel [syn: {gunwale}, {gun rest}]
2: small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the North
Atlantic [syn: {bracketed blenny}]
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