gill

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To build a version for laundry, the researchers recreated the gill arch system and tested different mesh sizes and funnel opening angles.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

NRW said Samuel deliberately used a large spinning bait with a barbed treble hook, and when the fish was examined by the officer the lure was still lodged deep in its throat and gill rackers.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

But by the time the video footage begins, the underdog octopus had already asserted its toughness, blocking off the eel’s eyes and stuffing arms into its mouth and out the gill hole.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

Their wiggling catch arrives alive, not smushed as in a purse seine, or ripped and bleeding from a gill net.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024

If I hang the gill, the northmen will attack at once, he thought as he loosed a shaft.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin