- Ship’s upper edge - A gunwale. - A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides;
esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish,
butterfish, rock eel.
- A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family
Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland,
Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod.