gillie (gili)

[Sc., In the Celtic language, we have, with other words, "Gilla," a servant, a word familiar to sportsmen and travellers in the Highlands, and to readers of Scott in its Anglicised shape, Gillie. Maine, Early Hist. of Institutions, p. 217. Gillie white-foot, or gillie wet-foot, formerly, in Scotland, a running footman who had to carry his master over brooks and watery places in traveling.