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gill(5) (iou) and Yser River (sh)


gill(5) (iou)



gill noun5. Chiefly dial. Also jill. L18.
[Origin unkn.]
A two-wheeled machine used for the transport of timber.

Yser River (sh)




River, northern France and Belgium.

Rising in northern France, it flows through western Belgium and enters the North Sea near Nieuwpoort after a course of 48 mi (77 km). Its estuary was probably as far inland as Loo into the 10th century, but gradual land reclamation has since reduced it to a narrow tidal creek. During World War I (1914) the German advance toward Calais and the English Channel coast was halted at the river when Nieuwpoort sluices were flooded; this checked the German advance and allowed the Allies to set up an impregnable position.