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English
Etymology
From Goidelic/Scottish Gaelic timchioll (“a circuit, compass”).
Noun
tinchel (plural tinchels)
- (hunting, Scotland) A circle of hunters, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within closer range.
1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; , Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):We'll quell the savage mountaineer, / As their tinchel cows the game!
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