tinchel

English

Alternative forms
  • tinchill

Etymology

From Goidelic timchioll (“a circuit, compass”).

Noun

tinchel (plural tinchels)

  1. (Scotland) A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.
    • Sir Walter Scott
      We'll quell the savage mountaineer, / As their tinchel cows the game!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tinchel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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