Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Scotland, a circle of sportsmen who, by surrounding a great space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer together.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. 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.
Etymologies
- Gaelic timchioll a circuit, compass. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The tinchel was the name given to the circle of hunters which, gradually narrowing, hemmed the deer into a small space, where they could be easily slaughtered.”
“These active assistants spread through the country far and near, forming a circle, technically called the tinchel, which, gradually closing, drove the deer in herds together towards the glen where the Chiefs and principal sportsmen lay in wait for them.”
“While the clansmen were out forming the tinchel, the lords were assembled in secret convocation, in which the Earl of Mar eloquently counselled resistance to the rule of King George, and the taking of arms in the cause of James”
“He would apply to the service of war a device employed by the Highlanders in the chase, and put in practice against them their own tactics of the tinchel. [”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tinchel’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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circle
ensÅ, ring, ngoeloe, ponilti, pongokpu, whirl, coil, band, halo, almucantar, cromlech, gyre and 52 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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Rogue's Words for bonnie lads n lassies
tinchel, glen, sassenach, guddle, brae, bonnie, eejit, deerhound, hoonds, lassie, laddie, heiland and 188 more...
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T-words
tantony, tath, timmynoggy, thole, tortfeaser, twiss, tyg, trichechine, tanquam, tattogey, thebaine, thob and 36 more...
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space
plenum, exergue, ramage, berth, lacuna, swath, hollow, gap, expanse, between, margin, spandrel and 88 more...
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