Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GILL
GILL, n.4 [In Sw. gilja signifies to woo.]
- In ludicrous language, a female; a wanton girl. Each Jack with his Gill. B. Jonson.
- A fissure in a hill; also, a place between steep banks and a rivulet flowing through it; a brook. Ray. Grose.
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