tinchel

English

Alternative forms

• tinchill

Etymology

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

Noun

tinchel (plural tinchels)

1. (hunting, Scotland) A circle of hunters, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within closer range.
   • 1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):

     We'll quell the savage mountaineer, / As their tinchel cows the game!

References

• “tinchel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• linchet