chel was so named at
first; but astronomers adopted _Uranus_ instead, as safer to keep in the
neutral ground of mythology.

GERLETROCH. The _Salmo alpinus_, red char, or galley-trough.

GERRACK. A coal-fish in its first year.

GERRET. A samlet or parr.

GERRICK. A Cornish name for a sea-pike.

GERRON. A cant name for the sea-trout.

GESERNE. Anglo-Norman for battle-axe.

GESTLING. A meeting of the members of the Cinque Ports at Romney.

GET AFLOAT. Pulling out a grounded boat.

GET-A-PULL. The order to haul in more of a rope or tackle.

GHAUT. _See_ GAUT.

GHEE. The substitute for butter served out to ships' companies on the
Indian station.

GHOST. A false image in the lens of an instrument.

GHRIME-SAIL. The old term for a smoke-sail.

GIB. A forelock.

GIBB. The beak, or hooked upper lip of a male salmon.

GIBBOUS. The form of a planet's disc exceeding a semicircle, but less
than a circle.

GIB-FISH. A northern name for the male of the salmon.

GIBRALTAR GYN. Originally devised there for working guns under a low
roof. (_See_ GYN.)

GIDDACK. A name on our northern coasts for the sand-launce or sand-eel,
_Ammodytes tobianus_.

GIFFOOT. A Jewish corruption of the Spanish spoken at Gibraltar and the
sea-ports.

GIFT-ROPE [synonymous with _guest-rope_]. A rope for boats at the
guest-warp boom.

GIG. A light narrow galley or ship's boat, clincher-built, and adapted
for expedition either by rowing or sailing; the latter ticklish at
times.

GILDEE. A name in the Scottish isles for the _Morhua barbata_, or
whiting pout.

GILGUY. A guy for tracing up, or bearing a boom or derrick. Often
applied to inefficient guys.

GILL. A ravine down the surface of a cliff; a rivulet through a ravine.
The name is often applied also to the valley itself.

GILLER. A horse-hair fishing line.

GILLS. Small hackles for drying hemp.

GILPY. Between a man and boy.

GILSE. A common misnomer of _grilse_ (which see).

GILT. A cant, but old term for money, on which Shakspeare (_Henry V._
act ii. scene 1) committed a well-known pun--

"Have for the gilt of France (O guilt indeed!)"

GILT-HEAD, OR GILT-POLL. The _Sparus aurata_, a fish of the European and
American seas, with a golden mark between the eyes. (_See_ SEDOW.)

GIMBALS. The two concentric brass rings, having their axles at right
angles, by which a sea-compass is suspended in its box, so as to
counteract the effect of the ship's motion. (_See_ CO