gillie

IPA: gˈɪɫi

noun

  • (Scotland, originally) A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief.
  • (British, Ireland, Scotland) A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland.
  • (Scotland) A gill of an alcoholic drink.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (intransitive) To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone).
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Examples of "gillie" in Sentences

  • Here is a link to where I purchased my bow huntin 'gillie, for anyone interested.
  • But the air she played was not the air of the song she called the 'Welsh dukkerin' gillie 'which I had heard by Beddgelert.
  • There's some really awesome camo patterns out there but when it comes to really erasing the human outline a gillie is the way to go.
  • Hey dummies, deer and elk can't tell the difference between breakup blaze orange-martian electric green and a olive drab n dirt or mossy oak gillie suit.
  • I do think that such a critter, a smart critter in tune with it's environment and born with something a lot like a gillie suit for hide would be able to easily avoid humans if it desired not to meet them.
  • Borrow's life, for, soon after, when he first came among gypsy tents, and saw the long-haired woman with skin dark and swarthy like that of a toad, and a particularly evil expression, and when her husband threatened to baste the intruder with a ladle, the boy broke forth into what in Romany would be called a "gillie," or ditty, ending --

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