1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. v A silver stream, Where thou shalt see the red-gill'd fishes leap.

1672 M. Lister Let. 15 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1973) IX. 324 They were of a large size, something bigger than ye ordinary red-gilled eatable Mushroome or Champignon & very much of their shape.

1788 J. Bolton Hist. Fungusses Halifax I. 4 Toothed Gill'd Agaric.

1794 J. Sibthorp Flora Oxoniensis 350 Saffron-gilled Agaric.

1823 Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1824) 76 Remember the deeds of Sir Billy the Fat, That rosy-gill'd Alderman bold.

1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) IV. 225 Broad-gilled semi-globular Agaric.

1871 St. G. Mivart On Genesis of Species iii. 76 The two-gilled cephalopods have not yet been found below the lias, where they at once abound; whereas the four-gilled cephalopods are Silurian forms.

1935 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 16 236 As its name implies, the seven-gilled shark is distinguished from all other species of shark in New Zealand waters by the fact that it has seven gill-slits.

1963 C. S. Woods Native & Introduced Freshwater Fishes 44 Blue-gilled Bully... Its name refers to the vivid iridescent blue-green curtain underneath the gill covers.

2002 A. Pearson I don't know how she does It (2003) ii. 25 The three other guys are pink-gilled landed types with prep-school partings.

1771 J. Hill Fossils 102 (table) Lamellate spar. In vast flatted masses..gill'd like mushrooms.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 150/1 In the following abstract of this list the names of the living forms most closely allied to the several stages are given in parentheses... 13. Gilled Amphibia (Proteus); 14. Tailed Amphibia (Triton).

1895 Daily News 4 Nov. 3/3 Specimens of gilled fungi.

1919 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 12 213 The climax in aquatic adjustment for this group is probably represented by the gilled caterpillars of Nymphula.

1938 J.-B. O. Sneeden Introd. Internal Combustion Engin. (new ed.) x. 170 In the gilled tube pattern,..a large number of tubes are set vertically between the top and bottom headers of the radiator.

1991 Martha Stewart Living Sept. 74 Bulbous Porcini..are a European favorite, their tawny caps hiding spongy, rather than gilled, undersides.

2005 T. S. Kemp Origin & Evol. Mammals iii. 16/1 They mostly retained the anamniotic egg laid in water and hatching into a gilled, fully aquatic larval form.

1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 31 [Exhibit No.] 18. Wool goes to Gill Box..to be gilled. 19. Machine for Gilling the tops. 21. Winds the gilled balls.

1919 Amer. Wool & Cotton Reporter 23 Oct. 3/2 The gilled wool is passed through an oval metal piece and then between a pair of smooth pressure rollers, to be delivered in the sliver form into receptacles.

1959 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 2 1107 Measurements of fibre fineness..and fibre length..were made on samples of scoured wool, gilled card-sliver ex punch-balls, tops, noil, and roving.

2003 C. A. Lawrence Fund. Spun Yarn Technol. v. 246 Drawn or gilled slivers should comprise mostly straightened fibers.