▪ I. gunnel
(ˈgʌnəl)
[Of unknown origin; Ray regarded it as Cornish.]
A small, eel-shaped marine fish, Centronotus or Murænoides gunnellus, common in British waters; the butter-fish. Also spotted gunnel.
| 1686 Willughby & Ray Hist. Pisc. 115 Gunnellus Cornubiensium, nonnullis Butterfish. 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. xviii. 123 The Butter-Fish or Gunnel..some⁓times attains the length of six Inches..is taken frequently on the Cornish Coast. 1828 J. Fleming Brit. Anim. 207 Gunnellus vulgaris, Common Gunnel..G. viviparus, Viviparous Gunnel. 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 239 The Spotted Gunnel, or Butterfish..is sufficiently distinguished from the true Blennies by its dorsal fin..and by its elongated, slender, and compressed body. 1863 Wood Nat. Hist. III. 291 The Butter-fish, Swordick, or Spotted Gunnel (Centronotus gunellus), belongs to this family [sc. of the Blennies]. |
▪ II. gunnel
see gunwale.