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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GUN'NEL. [See Gunwale.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel [syn: gunwale, gunnel, gun rest]
2: small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic [syn: gunnel, bracketed blenny]

Merriam Webster's

I. variant of gunwale II. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1740 a small slimy eellike bony fish (Pholis gunnellus) of the North Atlantic; broadly any fish of the family (Pholidae) to which the gunnel belongs

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. any small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, esp. Pholis gunnellus. Also called BUTTERFISH. Etymology: 17th c.: orig. unkn. 2. gunner n. 1 an artillery soldier (esp. as an official term for a private). 2 Naut. a warrant-officer in charge of a battery, magazine, etc. 3 a member of an aircraft crew who operates a gun. 4 a person who hunts game with a gun.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]