GILLIE (from the Gael. gille, Irish gille or giolla, a servant or boy)

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GILLIE (from the Gael. gille, Irish gille or giolla, a servant or boy) , an attendant on a Gaelic chieftain; in this sense its use,

save

SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

historically, is rare. The name is now applied in the Highlands of

Scotland

SCOTLAND
SCOTLAND,
CHURCH
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other
  languages
  - LANGUAGES
  under various forms—Scottish
  kirk
  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH,
  RICHARD
  WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR
  RICHARD
  (1784–1873)
OF
SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other
  languages
  - LANGUAGES
  under various forms—Scottish
  kirk
  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
OF

to the man-servant who attends a sports-man in

shooting

SHOOTING

or fishing. A gillie-wetfoot, a

term

TERM

now obsolete (a

translation

TRANSLATION

of gillie-casfliuch, from the Gaelic cas, foot, and
fliuch, wet), was the Billie whose duty it was to carry his master over streams. It became a

term

TERM

of contempt among the Lowlanders for the " tail " (as his. attendants were called) of a Highland

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

.

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