Meaning of grilse | Babel Free

Definitions

A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

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Examples

“[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; […]

“In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.”

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