Wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel.
Small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic.
1Every eye looked over the gunnel to witness what had occasioned such exclamations.
2A man now made his appearance from over the gunnel, at the gangway.
3The click-click-click of toenails on fiberglass drew his attention to the starboard gunnel.
4He grabbed a gunnel and waded, towing the boat beside him.
5He drummed his fingers on the blackened wood of the gunnel.
6He was on the rope-ladder that dangled down in the air from the gunnel.
7The 20th, cut away the gunnel to get the long-boat out, which was done.
8He smiled as he stood on the gunnel, holding on by the main shrouds.
9He leaned to the left and looked down the gunnel.
10He held onto the gunnel of his kayak, half cooked.
11I had been an hour on the gunnel, when Cross came up to me.
12Trudy towed me up close, till I could hook my elbows over the gunnel.
13The gunnel-wherehe was standing-comesup around your chest.
14In another minute Ready was over the rocks, and had seized the gunnel of the boat.
15I watched him lean up against the gunnel and I heard him puke over the side.
16A boatman lifted the body over the gunnel.