What does grilse mean?
Grilse means A young salmon after its first return from the sea..
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/ɡɹɪls/ · noun
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; […]
In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.
Use grilse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grilse means A young salmon after its first return from the sea..
Common synonyms include grilt.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[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; […]
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