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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Grils(e, n. Also: grillis(se, gryls(e, grels. [Late ME. grils(e, grill(e)s (1417), of unknown origin; cf. Grissill and Girls. In early use app. chiefly northern Eng. and Sc.] A young salmon. Freq. as collective pl.1398 Acts I. 209/1.
Solvet nomine custume pro quolibet salmone vnum denarium et pro duobus grels vnum denarium
1431 Exch. R. 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
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

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