different between fishing vs gillie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Homophone: phishing

Etymology 1

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish +? -ing.

Noun

fishing (countable and uncountable, plural fishings)

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.

   We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
2. (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
4. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   This is good news for the fishing industry.

5. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.

   • the rent of the fishings

   • 1917, The Scots Law Times (volume 2, page 190)

     Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.

Synonyms

• (act): piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
• (business): fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
• (sport): sportfishing
• (place): See fishery

Translations

See also

• (adj): See fishing
• (adv): halieutically
• (science): halieutics, piscatology
• (writing on fishing): halieutics, piscatory

See also

• piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian; piscatorially

Etymology 2

From fish +? -ing.

Verb

fishing

1. present participle of fish

Derived terms

English

Etymology 1

From Scottish Gaelic gille (“helper”), from Middle Irish gilla (“youth, young man; boy, male child; messenger, page, servant”), possibly borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“brawny, stout; of full worth”). Compare Irish giolla (“boy”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: g?l??, IPA^(key): /???li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ili/
• Rhymes: -?li
• Hyphenation: gil?lie

Noun

gillie (plural gillies)

1. (Scotland, originally) A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief.
2. (Britain, Ireland, Scotland) A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland.

Alternative forms

• ghillie
• gilly

Derived terms

• ghillie suit, gillie suit
• gillie-casflue
• gillie-wetfoot

Translations

Verb

gillie (third-person singular simple present gillies, present participle gillying, simple past and past participle gillied)

1. (intransitive) To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone).

Etymology 2

From gill (“drink measure for spirits”) +? -ie; probably a nonce word coined by Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796) to maintain the rhyme in a poem entitled On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies, first published in 1786: see the quotation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: j?l??, IPA^(key): /?d??li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?ili/
• Rhymes: -?li
• Hyphenation: gil?lie

Noun

gillie (plural gillies)

1. (Scotland) A gill of an alcoholic drink. [from 1786]

Further reading

• gillie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia