gill:

A girl or woman , especially a sweetheart . Obsolete. Defined by Captain Francis Grose his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively used for a woman . Every jack has his gill; i.e. every jack has his gillian, or female mate .'
See Also: gill, gills, in up to the eyes, in up to the neck, jill, up to one's ears in love, up to the ears in love

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