gilly
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"The fairest flowers o' the season Are our carnations and streak'd gilly flower."
From Garden-Craft Old and New by John D. Sedding
The gilly said that perhaps I had too much line out, and so he took the rod and wound up a good deal of the line.
From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Frank Richard Stockton
That shines like the shin of a Highland gilly!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
"Ne'er sae weel a' my life," quoth the gilly.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
Close to one plate a bunch of stocks and gilly flowers reposed on the dirty tablecloth, as though dropped and forgotten by the God of Love.
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
The child of Imelda Marcos and Dr. Seuss would collect mukluks, galoshes and gillies and high-tops, and also some moccasins, chukkas and flip-flops.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
Merton took the most intelligent of the gillies aside.
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
His entire demeanour said, "To think that I should have carried the gaff, and gillied good salmon fishermen for years, and be degraded into this mean tomfoolery."
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior
