Crossword-Solution: GRILSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grilse | n. | A young salmon after its first return from the sea. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GRILSE | anagram | EGIRLS, LIGERS |
We have 9 clues for the answer “GRILSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Salmon in a stage of growth. | 1 answer |
| Young of the salmon. | 1 answer |
| Young salmon returning from the sea to inland waters for the first time to spawn | 1 answer |
| salmon on its first return from the sea to fresh water | 1 answer |
| YOUNG fish | 9 answers |
| Young salmon. | 14 answers |
| Salmon | 30 answers |
| FISH, type of | 73 answers |
| Food fish | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GRILSE (5)
Over his shoulder he was saying to her: "Sea-trout and grilse don't belong to Isla, but they come occasionally, Lady Yellow-hair." "Like you and I, Kay--we don't belong here but we come." "Where the McKay is, the Key of the World lies hidden in his sporran," he laughed back at her over his shoulder where the clan plaid fluttered above the cairngorm.
Geology and botany A hundred wonders shall diskiver, We'll flog and troll in strid and hole, And skim the cream of lake and river, Blow Snowdon! give me Ireland for my pennies, Hurrah! for salmon, grilse, and--Dennis, Dennis, Dennis! Eversley, 1856 THE LAST BUCCANEER Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I; And such a port for mariners I ne'er shall see again As the pleasant Isle of Aves, beside the Spanish main.
And I'm glad not to be going home empty-handed." So Lionel picked up her waterproof and put it over his arm; she shouldered her fishing-rod, after having reeled in the line; the handsome old gillie brought up the rear with the gaff and the slung grilse; and thus equipped the three of them set out for the lodge--across the wide valley that was now all russet and golden under the warm light still lingering in the evening skies.
You'll be glad to have a bit of white fish after so much grilse and sea-trout." "Oh, I'll take my chance," Lionel said; it was not dinner that was occupying his thoughts.
The Grilse is by many believed to be a distinct species, whilst others stoutly maintain that it is a young Salmon.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1946–1964).