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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gunnel \Gun"nel\, n. [See Gunwale.] 1. A gunwale. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gunnel 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]