(n.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has provided the platform for success that – with notable exceptions in Jonathan Edwards, Sally Gunnell, Linford Christie and Kelly Holmes – has proved elusive since Coe's own glory days in the mid-1980s.
(2) On Saturday, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said Ali died from septic shock due to unspecified natural causes.
(3) It was an unprecedented crowd in Colombia, and it convinced local entrepreneurs to set up a proper professional league, preferably stuffed to the gunnels with the world's top talent.
(4) Sally Gunnell wins gold at Barcelona Olympics: from the archive, 6 August 1992 Read more The world governing body for athletics issued a statement saying the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had ratified a settlement agreement under which Shobukhova’s original suspension had been prolonged until March 2016.
(5) Some high-profile foreign leaders – Jordan’s King Abdullah, and Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan – were cut from the program at the last moment, to make room for two other, as yet unnamed, speakers, according to Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell.
(6) It’s about learning lessons from the financial crisis,” said Gunnell, who is also a member of the National Suicide Advisory Group.
(7) He becomes only the fifth British athlete after Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Jonathan Edwards and Linford Christie to hold all four titles simultaneously.
(8) However it concludes that rises in unemployment “appear to account for less than half the increase in suicide deaths during recessions.” As part of the study, Gunnell interviewed men in their 20s, 30s and 40s who had attempted suicide.
(9) In a recession, all sorts of things happen,” said David Gunnell, professor of epidemiology at the University of Bristol.
(10) As long as next week is the same I have a good chance of winning the worlds in Beijing.” Should he succeed, Rutherford would join a select group of British athletes as only Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Jonathan Edwards and Linford Christie have held the Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles at the same time.
(11) Ali died late on Friday at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, the family’s spokesperson Bob Gunnell said.
(12) By quarter to five, the Cornerstone had shut its doors again, packed to the gunnels with about 200 fans.
(13) Gunnell , her eyes still wide and her smile ever widening, made sure she would remember every moment.
(14) High-profile foreign leaders – Jordan’s King Abdullah and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – were cut from the program at the last moment, to make room for two other, as yet unnamed, speakers, according to Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell.
(15) Sally Gunnell, draped in a Union flag, walked ever so slowly around Barcelona’s Olympic stadium yesterday evening, sponging up every glorious, golden moment of her 400m hurdles victory.
Gunwale
Definition:
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats.
(2) Put to bed images of retirees shuffling about in deck shoes though: these boats were stuffed to the gunwales with 21 to 35-year-olds, drinking, partying and the aforementioned kamikaze plunging off the top deck.