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 Gill (g soft) or Jill.Gills (g hard). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Gill (Harry).
 
A farmer struck with the curse of ever shivering with cold, because he would not allow old Goody Blake to keep a few stray sticks which she had picked up to warm herself by.   1
       
“Oh! what’s the matter? what’s the matter?
What is’t that ails young Harry Gill,
That evermore his teeth they chatter,
Chatter, chatter, chatter, still? … .
No word to any man he utters,
A-bed or up, to young or old;
But ever to himself he mutters—
“Poor Harry Gill is very cold.”
       
Wordsworth: Goody Blake and Harry Gill.
 


 Gill (g soft) or Jill.Gills (g hard). 

 
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