"giller" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1872 January 16, Hunter Davidson, Report on the Oyster Fisheries: Potomac River Shad and Herring Fisheries, and the Water-Fowl of Maryland, page 35:",
          "text": "It is one of the improvements of the times ; it enables the poor man, with hardly anything, to go to work on his own resources, and with his boat and net to follow the fish as they travel from place to place in search of food or to spawn. In this pursuit the giller comes in contact with the seinehauler, and certainly encroaches upon his rights.",
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          "ref": "1897, George Brown Goode, The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, volume I, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 572:",
          "text": "It is then thrown to the giller, who removes the gills and entrails and cuts a gash along the side containing the backbone, in order that the salt may the more readily penetrate the flesh.",
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          "ref": "1906, W. E. Meehan, “The Shad Work on the Delaware River in 1907 and Its Lessons”, in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society at its Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting, page 105:",
          "text": "This was done by the giller. We would no: try it if we could get out of it. It was too risky.",
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        "A person who gills fish."
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        "(obsolete) A person who gills fish."
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        "(obsolete) A person who gills fish."
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