Greenwelln.
/ˈɡriːnw(ɛ)l/, U.S. /ˈɡrinˌwɛl/ Angling.
I. Compounds.
1. Greenwell's glory n. a type of trout or salmon fly.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > trout flies
trout-fly1746
wren's-tail1837
Greenwell's glory1867
skipjack1867
spent gnat1867
Greenwell1872
heckum-peckum1876
Wickham1876
Saltoun1886
muddler1924
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling 212 In the north they have a fly called Greenwell's Glory.—It kills well on all the northern streams.
1879 W. Henderson Life Angler xxi. 237 104 fish [sc. trout], chiefly captured with the ‘Greenwell's Glory’ fly.
1899 E. Grey Fly Fishing viii. 216 In wet fly fishing for trout I am content with March-browns, Greenwell's glories, [etc.].
1961 A. C. Williams Dict. Trout Flies (ed. 3) ii. 197 There can be no fly the name of which is better known to the general public than the great Greenwell's Glory,..for a more generally useful wet fly has never been made.
2007 Church Times 9 Nov. 2/3 One day, I was fishing with a Greenwell's Glory, a fly named after an angling canon.
II. Simple uses.
2. = Greenwell's glory n. at sense 1.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > trout flies
trout-fly1746
wren's-tail1837
Greenwell's glory1867
skipjack1867
spent gnat1867
Greenwell1872
heckum-peckum1876
Wickham1876
Saltoun1886
muddler1924
1872 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 3) x. 339 Four new flies were sent to me..the Greenwell, the Silver Grey, the Wilkinson, and Sir Richard.
1879 W. Henderson Life Angler xxii. 251 ‘The Greenwell’ fly did most execution [of salmon].
1928 W. F. R. Reynolds With Fly Only 65 Perhaps an iron blue or two, and a few Greenwells.
1991 She May 35/1 Well, I tried a Greenwells. Then a Ginger Quill. Bugger all.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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