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- [Uncertain senses.]
- 1950 November 25, Tom Parkinson, “Ingenuity keys K-M climb: Miller family recaptures famed circus efficiency, perfects ad campaign to build hefty takes”, in The Billboard, volume 62, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, page 56, column 5:
- Another specially designed KM truck, which carries side poles and stakes and includes a water tank and stake driver, circles the layout pins to place the stakes and side poles in a single operation. It eliminates much duplication of effort and gillying of the side poles.
- 1960 October 3, “Weather hurts Cristiani Bros. on Texas route”, in The Billboard, volume 72, number 40, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, page 61, column 3:
- Greenville had three and one-half inches of rain falling slowly four days, ending Tuesday, and the circus spent most of the day Wednesday (28) trying different show lots, finally gillying the side-wall, seats and center poles onto a narrow lot on a narrow street in the south part of town in time for a 4 p.m. matinee without big top.
- 2010, Paul E. Downes, “Prevention of Bullying at a Systemic Level in Schools: Movement from Cognitive and Spatial Narratives of Diametric Opposition to Concentric Relation”, in Shane R. Jimerson, Susan M. Swearer, Dorothy L. Espelage, editors, Handbook of Bullying in Schools: An International Perspective, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 526:
- A focus on concentric interactive background factors in the community was highlighted in a recent survey in South Inner City "Old Dublin" […] with regard to bullying experienced by a small minority of high school students, namely, through the phenomenon of "Gillying," or of "Being a gilly." According to focus group interviews with 17- to 18-year-olds in alternative forms of education, there are some young people in early secondary school who are engaged in gillying for older drug traffickers. Specifically, they are keeping drugs in their possession for future selling by the dealers. The word "gilly" comes from the Irish "giolla" meaning servant and suggests an element of coercion in this process: "at 13 to 14 be a gilly, someone who keeps stuff for you, at 17 to 18 start selling, have people they're gillying for, younger than 15 to 16 if have an older fella [i.e. boyfriend], foreigners being forced into selling drugs to protect their families."