'Gunnel' definitions:
Definition of 'gunnel'
(from WordNet)
noun
Wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel [syn: gunwale, gunnel, gun rest]
noun
Small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic [syn: gunnel, bracketed blenny]
Definition of 'Gunnel'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'gunnel'
From: GCIDE
- 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]