Dictionary entry

Tinchel

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tin″chel (?), n. [Written also tinchill.] [Gael. timchioll a circuit, compass.] 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.

We'll quell the savage mountaineer,

As their tinchel cows the game! Sir W. Scott.