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Definition of Grilse
1. n. A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Definition of Grilse
1. Noun. A young salmon after its first return from the sea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grilse
1. a young salmon [n -S]
Medical Definition of Grilse
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Grilse
Literary usage of Grilse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"that a good grilse season is more than likely to be succeeded by a good salmon
season in the year following, and a bad grilse season by a bad salmon season ..."
2. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"SIR,—I send for your inspection two grilse caught on the Wye at Chepstow, marked
by cutting ... "I may mention we caught another grilse last Thursday (4th), ..."
3. Salmon and Trout by Dean Sage, Charles Haskins Townsend, Hugh McCormick Smith, William Charles Harris (1904)
"Probably the proportion of grilse would be greater in both instances were the
... SALMON grilse Our water, —1895 87 n first grilse taken July 4 1896 315 38 ..."
4. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Edward Fitzgibbon (1854)
"Tire grilse of small salmon, that is, of salmon which never grow beyond a small
size, are handsomer, in every way better shaped, and generally of a brighter ..."
5. Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye by Charles Richard Weld (1860)
"The River Thurso.—Its Excellence as a Salmon Kiver.— grilse. ... For, as I have
said, the Thurso is one of the best salmon and grilse rivers in the United ..."
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