Crossword clues for gunnel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International 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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small marine fish, 1680s, of unknown origin; perhaps from Cornish.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of gunwale English) 2 A small eel-shaped marine fish of the genus (taxlink Muraenoides genus noshow=1), especially (taxlink Muraaenoides gunnellus species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel [syn: gunwale, gun rest]
small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic [syn: bracketed blenny]
Wikipedia
Gunnel may refer to:
- Gunnel (fish), a family of elongated fish
- Gunnel (ship element), also known as "gunwale", the top edge of the side of a boat
- USS Gunnel (SS-253), a Gato-class submarine
- Gunnel Channel, Antarctica
People with the given name Gunnel:
- Gunnel André (born 1946), Swedish theologian
- Gunnel Fred (born 1955), Swedish actress
- Gunnel Gummeson (born 1930), Swedish teacher, central figure in a famous case of disappearance
- Gunnel Johansson (1922–2013), Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Gunnel Jonäng (1921–2008), Swedish politician
- Gunnel Lindblom (born 1931), Swedish actress
- Gunnel Linde (1924–2014), Swedish writer
- Gunnel Pettersson (born 1960), Swedish artist
- Gunnel Vallquist (1918–2016), Swedish writer
Usage examples of "gunnel".
It was a fairly exposed position, the distance between bench and gunnel being about twelve inches.
She was deeply slouched and holding on to the gunnel with both her hands, her head sunk very low between her arms.
Under the tarpaulin, he had another twelve inches of space, the distance between the gunnel, which supported the tarpaulin, and the benches, so three feet in all, barely enough for him to stand.
U-shaped notches in the gunnel for holding an oar in place, and five oars, since I had lost one trying to push Richard Parker away.
I leaned over the gunnel and with my thumbs pushed from under one of the hooks the rope that held down the tarpaulin.
Luckily, at the last stage, on the lip of the gunnel, it would often happen that a turtle would help me without meaning to.
I pulled at the same moment, our conflicting efforts sometimes came together and suddenly it would happen, easily: in the most dramatic fashion imaginable, a turtle would surge over the gunnel and slide onto the tarpaulin.
The anxious flying fish got away, just missing my net, but the dorado hit the gunnel like a cannonball.
But these events did not change the reality of things, which was that when he looked beyond the gunnel, he saw no jungle that he could hunt in and no river from which he could drink freely.
Between bench and gunnel there was twelve inches, and the side benches were only one and a half feet wide.
He balanced on the gunnel and the stern bench for a moment, assessing me.
He began repeating the same two words, over and over again, as the sailors pushed and pulled the platform up onto the gunnel until it was balanced precariously, half over the deck, half over the sea.
The entire ship was falling away beneath Karsa, beneath the platform itself, which slid wildly down the length of the gunnel before crunching against the foredeck railing, pivoting, then plunging for the waves below.
Torvald had reappeared, rope in his hand, sliding down over the gunnel near the high prow and back into the water.
A rope was made fast to the boat, to hold her to the ship: she was then launched over the gunnel by the united exertions of Mr.