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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. eel: Merriam-Webster
  2. eel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eel, eel: Wordnik
  7. eel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eel: Wiktionary
  9. eel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Eel, eel: Dictionary.com
  13. eel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EEL, Eel (G.I. Joe), Eel (comics), Eel (disambiguation), Eel (food), Eel, The Eel (Japanese film), The Eel (fictional character), The Eel (film), The Eel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Eel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. eel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. eel: Rhymezone
  19. Eel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. eel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. EEL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Eel, Eel, Eel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. eel: FreeDictionary.org
  24. eel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. eel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. eel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. eel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. eel: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. eel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. eel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. EEL: Acronym Finder
  3. EEL: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. eel: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. eel, eel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. eel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See eeling as well.)

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noun:  Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
noun:  A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
noun:  Various animals that resemble true eels:
noun:  Other ray-finned fishes:
noun:  An electric eel (any knifefish of genus Electrophorus)
noun:  In order Synbranchiformes:
noun:  A swamp eel (any fish in family Synbranchidae).
noun:  An earthworm eel, also called the spineless eel (any fish in family Chaudhuriidae).
noun:  A spiny eel (any fish in family Mastacembelidae).
noun:  A deep-sea spiny eel (any fish in family Notacanthidae).
noun:  Certain amphibians:
noun:  A conger eel, also called the Congo eel, amphiuma, and Congo snake (any salamander of genus Amphiuma).
noun:  A two-legged eel, also called the mud eel and lesser siren, Siren intermedia.
noun:  A leopard eel, also called the leopard siren and reticulated siren, Siren reticulata.
noun:  A rubber eel, Typhlonectes natans.
noun:  A vinegar eel, a roundworm of species Turbatrix aceti.
noun:  Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.
verb:  (intransitive) To fish for eels.
verb:  (intransitive) To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.

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