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gilse

gilse is the alternative form of grilse.

Meaning of grilse

Noun

grilse (plural grilses)

  1. A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
    • [T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [VI], in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...
    Synonyms:
    grilt

Forms of gilse

pluralgilses

Questions about gilse

What is gilse the alternative form of?
Gilse is the alternative form of grilse.

Words near gilse in the dictionary

  1. Gilruth
  2. Gilruths
  3. GILs
  4. Gilsdorf
  5. Gilsdorfs
  6. gilse
  7. gilses
  8. Gilsland
  9. Gilson
  10. gilsonite
  11. gilsonites

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