Definitions for grilses

grilses grilse

Spelling: [grils]
IPA: /grɪls/

Grilses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in grilses (egilrss).

Definitions for grilses

noun

  1. a young Atlantic salmon as it returns from the sea to fresh water for the first time.

Origin of grilses

1375-1425; late Middle English grills, grilles (plural)

Examples for grilses

The same fall they return as "grilse," weighing from three to five pounds.

Here was the winch, after much service, accounting for a grilse in Norway!

Up the front of this column the grilse presently flung himself, striking the water about a foot from the top.

Delightful it is to have the fish fighting all the time as only a grilse will.

My perseverance was rewarded, and I managed to secure three grilse.

His fins became smaller in proportion to his bulk, and he was no longer a grilse, but a salmon.

I then stopped, and, lengthening my line at each successive “throw,” sent my fly nearer and still nearer to the grilse.

The grilse rose sharply at the lure, but I “struck” too late.

All my line had been taken out, the gut collar had been snapped, and the fly had undoubtedly been carried off by the grilse.

This must have a considerable effect on the future supply of grilse in the Tweed.

Word Value for grilses
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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