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say it: gil
gill is a noun meaning "a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters". It is pronounced /ˈɡɪl/ — gil. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gill come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.