tinchel

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noun

A circle of hunters, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within closer range.

OriginGoidelic ← Scottish Gaelic timchioll →
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Meanings

nountinchel (plural tinchels)

plural tinchels · alternative tinchill · alternative tynchal

  1. ScotlandhobbiesA circle of hunters, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within closer range.

    We'll quell the savage mountaineer, / As their tinchel cows the game!

    1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)

Origin

  1. Scottish Gaelictimchioll“a circuit, compass”
  2. Goidelic
  3. Englishtinchel

From Goidelic/Scottish Gaelic timchioll (“a circuit, compass”).

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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