Crossword clues for gillie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gillie \Gil"lie\ Gilly \Gil"ly\, n. [Gael. gille, giolla, boy,
lad.]
A boy or young man; a manservant; a young male attendant, in
the Scottish Highlands.
--Sir W. Scott. [WordNet sense 1]
2. a lowcut shoe without a tongue and decorative lacing.
Syn: ghillie.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context originally English) Male attendant on a Scottish Highland chief. 2 (Scottish and Irish) fishing and hunting guide. 3 (context Ireland British English) A man or boy who attends to a person who is hunting or fishing in Scotland. vb. (context transitive English) To be a gillie (''a hunting or fishing guide'') for (someone). Etymology 2
n. (context Scotland English) A gill of an alcoholic drink.
WordNet
n. a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief
a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep [syn: ghillie]
Wikipedia
Ghillie or gillie is a Scots term that refers to a man or a boy who acts as an attendant on a fishing, fly fishing, hunting, or deer stalking expedition, primarily in the Highlands or on a river such as the River Spey. In origin it referred especially to someone who attended on his employer or guests.
A ghillie may also serve as a gamekeeper employed by a landowner to prevent poaching on his lands, control unwelcome natural predators such as fox or otter and monitor the health of the wildlife.
Usage examples of "gillie".
What had arrived on that supply ship, Gillie learned from studying the manifests, were components and a technology the Fav would probably love to have and control.
Gillie stood near the front of the bridge, staring at the images of the Fav ships on the viewscreen.
Ridiculously pleased with himself, Bond took a vague bearing on the island which, because of the drifting of the boat, was now only a speck on the horizon, and gradually worked himself into the slow unlaboured sweep of a Scottish gillie.
John Macnab had chosen rightly if he wanted a shot, but there were three gillies and her father to prevent him getting his beast away.
I suppose poor John Macnab is now crawling round Strathlarrig trying to find a gap between the gillies to cast a fly.
Now the only picture of John Macnab known to the gillies was that which had been broadcast in talk by Angus and Jimsie of Strathlarrig, and that agreed most startlingly with the navvies account.
Glenlyon, said Ian, the son of the chieftain: What seek ye with guns and with gillies so many?
I sensed that clannish, secretive mind-set of a lifelong carny, so I talked for a bit about the gillies and ragbags I'd worked in the Midwest, all the way through Ohio, while he continued to tinker with the generator and remained mute.
And the very fact that his lordship insisted that he remain confined within the locked cage lest a fit of the sorcery-induced madness suddenly come upon him, that during emergences to wash his body and clothes in nearby bums and tiny lochs he be close guarded by sharp-eyed monks and brawny gillies, reassured Abbot Fergus enough of the poor, unfortunate, put-upon and gravely suffering man's good intentions that, upon request, he loaned his charge his razor and his precious bronze scissors that the earl might trim his beard and hair and : thy, cracked, and clawlike toe and fingernails.
And the very fact that his lordship insisted that he remain confined within the locked cage lest a fit of the sorcery-induced madness suddenly come upon him, that during emergences to wash his body and clothes in nearby burns and tiny lochs he be close guarded by sharp-eyed monks and brawny gillies, reassured Abbot Fergus enough of the poor, unfortunate, put-upon and gravely suffering man's good intentions that, upon request, he loaned his charge his razor and his precious bronze scissors that the earl might trim his beard and hair and filthy, cracked, and claw-like toe and fingernails.
It was on the island, it was near his son's school, the woman of the house was a splendid cook, and this man Murrough said he would gillie for him.