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grilse

/ɡɹɪls/

grilse noun: a young salmon after its first return from the sea.

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...
    • In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, Stanford University Press, page 4
    Synonyms:
    grilt

grilse meaning in Tamil and Persian

grilse in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

grilse in Persian

young salmon
آزادماهی âzâdmâhi

Synonyms of grilse

Forms of grilse

pluralgrilses
alternative formgilse

Origin of grilse

From Middle English grills, grilles, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots grils, grissill, girls (“young salmon”). Compare English grawl, Scots grawl, graulse (“young salmon, grilse”).

Words that rhyme with grilse

Questions about grilse

What does grilse mean?
Grilse means a young salmon after its first return from the sea.
What is grilse in Tamil?
Grilse in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Grilse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is grilse?
Grilse is a noun.
How do you pronounce grilse?
Grilse is pronounced /ɡɹɪls/.
What is the plural of grilse?
The plural of grilse is grilses.

Words near grilse in the dictionary

  1. grillware
  2. grillwork
  3. grillworks
  4. grillz
  5. grils
  6. grilse
  7. grilses
  8. grilt
  9. grim
  10. grim reaper
  11. Grim Reaper paradox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grilse (page history and authors); grilse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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