Gillie

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief.
2. isim A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland.

   “Courage and coolness are great qualities in a gillie, and you do not really know your man till you have been with him in a storm. […] Most gillies have cool heads and hearts of oak. They must have these qualities; to be cool and courageous is part of their job.”

3. fiil To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone).

   “I had taken bigger fish on the Alta, while fishing as Tony Pulitzer's guest on the Jöraholmen farm, but never under circumstances as bizarre as the day I found myself being ghillied by a girl.”

4. isim A gill of an alcoholic drink.

   “Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!”

5. özel isim A surname.