grice

noun

1. (Scotland)A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.

   “This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray”

   “Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice, capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;”

   “Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, gricen.”

   “A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.”

2. (obsolete)A step or stair.

   “he stood under the grices”

verb

1. (UK, slang)to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.

   “Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost.”

   “We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...]”

   “Trainspotters may be mocked by the outside world, but they don't take criticism lying down: the language of gricing is notable for its acidic descriptions of outsiders.”

name

1. A surname.