A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1398-1549, 1609-1625, 1698
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Grils(e, n. Also: grillis(se, gryls(e, grels, griss; girls, girlse. [Late ME. grils(e, grill(e)s (1417), of unknown origin; cf. Grissill. In early use app. chiefly northern Eng. and Sc.] A young salmon. Freq. as collective pl.(a)1398 Acts I. 209/1.
Solvet nomine custume pro quolibet salmone vnum denarium et pro duobus grels vnum denarium 1431 Exchequer Rolls IV. 536.
Trium lastarum et duorum barrellium … de grilse 1441 Ib. V. 105.
Viginti duas parvas barrellas de grylse vel salmonum 1448 Ib. 325.
De … xxij barillibus de grilsis vel salmonum salsorum 1448 Ib.
xxij barillia de grillis 1469 Acts II. 96/2.
Salmonde, grils, and trowtis 1522 Reg. Cupar A. I. 303.
Thre dusane of auld salmond fych and twa dusane of grils 1549 Banff Ann. I. 23.
Personis sall not tak na kynd of fysche, gryls, and salmond at thair awne hand 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. 22.
That na man take fisch or take salmond or salmon trouts, grilsis, in forbidden time 1698 Foulis Acc. Bk. 232.
To John Clog for 2 salmond grisses(b)14.. Acts I. 109/2.
That na man tak apon hand to fysch othir ald salmond or girlsis in tyme forbodyn1494 Acts Lords of Council 348/1.
The sovme of ix barrellis of salmonde and a barell of girlse ȝerly of twa ȝeris 1525 Libr. Dom. Jac. V 7.
xij crunans, iij girlsis 1625 Edinburgh Testaments LIII. 121 b.
xxi last … salmond & girlsis
