Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salmon of the second year. See the extract.
- noun The act or process of catching fish with gill-nets.
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Examples
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That's one of the reasons -- and I'm not gilling the lily -- your C-SPAN at least puts on reality.
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Seines are long nets with meshes small enough to prevent the desired fish from gilling (filtering nets).
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Why is there another operation of gilling after combing?
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Follow the gilling by the operation of _combing_, which you will do by combing again, this time with a fine comb.
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Glovers triangular needles and gilling or carpet thread of suitable sizes are the necessary tools.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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Combine several strands into one and subject the one strand to a second process of gilling to make sure that all fibers are side by side.
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Pull about three inches of wool from the sliver and perform upon it the operation of gilling by combing it with the coarse comb.
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The principle of gilling is to comb the fibers more and more nearly parallel and to draw them out into more even strands.
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• Net mesh dimension of talaya nets: small enough to prevent gilling of fish and mesh design should not be for gilling of fish.
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To prevent the build-up of salmon carcasses on the Russian River, the Russian River Interagency Coordination Group is asking anglers to carry their fish out whole (gutting and gilling fish is OK).
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