the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
"The chef grilled a whole eel for dinner, savoring its rich texture."
voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
"The angler spotted an eel lurking beneath the dock, its long, scaleless body coiled tightly in the murky water."
Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
"The chef carefully filleted the fresh eel before grilling it over an open flame."
To fish for eels.
"The old man spends his mornings wading through the marsh to eel."