tinchel
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.
Examples
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The tinchel was the name given to the circle of hunters which, gradually narrowing, hemmed the deer into a small space, where they could be easily slaughtered.
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These active assistants spread through the country far and near, forming a circle, technically called the tinchel, which, gradually closing, drove the deer in herds together towards the glen where the Chiefs and principal sportsmen lay in wait for them.
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He would apply to the service of war a device employed by the Highlanders in the chase, and put in practice against them their own tactics of the tinchel.
Note
The word 'tinchel' comes from the Gaelic 'timchioll' ("a circuit, compass").
