eel

(noun, verb)

noun

1. the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled

Definition categories: food, fish

2. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

Definition categories: animal, malacopterygian

verb

1. To fish for eels.

2. To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.