gilse

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A form of grilse — A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

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Meanings

noungilse (plural gilses)

plural gilses

  1. alternativeAlternative form of grilse (“young salmon”).

    [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; […]

    They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their 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, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 133

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

gilse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gilse

MLA

“gilse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gilse. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gilse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gilse.

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