eel

name

1. A township in Cass County, Indiana, United States, probably named after the Eel River.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”).

1. Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.

   “Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.”

2. A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
3. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:
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13. Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.

    “That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time.”

    “His expression when incredulous. "Why would you think that?" He was a slippery little eel.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”).

1. To fish for eels.
2. To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.