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gill
Definitions
A girl or woman, especially a sweetheart. Obsolete. Defined by Captain Francis Grose his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively used for a woman. Every jack has his gill; i.e. every jack has his gillian, or female mate.'volume equal to 1/4 of a British Imperial pint (142 milliliters)
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