n.
Any of various chiefly coastal aquatic birds of the family Laridae, having long wings, webbed feet, a thick, slightly hooked beak, and usually gray and white plumage.
[Middle English gulle, possibly of Brythonic origin.]
gull2 (gŭl)
n.
A person who is easily tricked or cheated; a dupe.
tr.v., gulled, gull·ing, gulls.
To deceive or cheat.
[Probably from gull, to swallow (obsolete), from Middle English golen, to pretend to swallow, from gole, throat, perhaps from Old French goule. See gullet.]
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