释义 |
ginnle, v.|gɪn(ə)l| Also ginle, ginnel. [f. ginnles local Sc. var. ginners.] trans. To tickle (the gills of a fish); to tickle (trout), catch by tickling the gills, etc.
1819Rennie St. Patrick III. ii. 42 Ye..took me aiblins for a black-fisher it was gaun to ginle the chouks o' ye. 1885Ld. Blackburn in Law Rep. 10 App. Cas. 388 The boy who was ginneling trout would observe..that..there was then no bridge, but a deep pool. 1887J. Service Life Dr. Duguid xiii. 88, I sighed..for a lang simmer's day..to ginnle trouts with John Paiks in the Roughburn. |