10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPREAGH»
Discover the use of
spreagh in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spreagh and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Narrating Scotland: The Imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson
A man kens litde till he's driven a spreagh of neat catde (say) ten miles through a
throng lowland country and the black soldiers maybe at his tail. It's there that I
learned a great part of my penetration. . . . Now the Gregara have had grand ...
2
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
SPREAGH, sb. Sc. Also in forms spreath; spreich (1.111.). [sprixd Cattle-lifting;
booty, spoil. Driving a spreagh (Whilk is in plain Scotch stealing a herd of nowte),
Scorr Rob Roy (1817) axvi; A man hens little till he's driven a spreagh of neat ...
3
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z ...
adv.Spread′ingly, increasingly.—Spread a fleet, to keep moreopenorder. [A.S.
sprǽdan; Dut. spreiden, Ger. spreiten.] Spreagh, spreh,n. plunder.—n.Spreagh′
ery, cattlelifting. [Gael. spreidh, cattle.] Spreckled,sprek′ld, adj. speckled. Spred
...
The sou was a French copper coin spreagh, cattle-stealing, 124. See Rob Roy,
chap. XXVI. "driving a spreagh — whilk is in plain Scotch, stealing a herd of nowt
" spring, a quick, lively tune, 102 springald, youth, stripling, 54 stadthouse, ...
According to Eric Partridge, spree, with an earlier variant spray, comes from an
old Scottish spreath or spreagh and that meant "booty, especially of cattle, hence
a raid." Raiding of flocks and herds was a favourite Highland pastime. It seems ...
Ivor John Carnegie Brown, 1961
From the Latin word came the Gaelic sprddh (cattle) and the Scots spreath or
spreagh, "cattle taken as booty; cattle-stealing forays" ("[He was] an old follower
of Rob Roy, who had been at many a spreagh with that redoutable freebooter" —
Sir ...
7
Scottish Gaelic Studies
In the Gaelic of to-day the word survives, so far as I know, only in the Irish of
South Kerry,1 where it assumes the form -puch, which stands for puh (puith), just
as puh (puth), ' a puff,' is also puch in the same dialect.2 spraigh, spreagh.
spreidh.
8
Quentin Durward: In Three Volumes
a You will not deny that they are cattle-lifters?» said Guthrie. u To drive a spreagh
, or so, is no thievery,» said Balafré, a and that I will maintain when and how you
dare.» a For shame, comrade,» said Cunningham; a who quarrels now?
9
The Works of Walter Scott, Esq
A thing doplorable in ony Christian country — the mair especially, that they takea
pride in it, and reckon driving a spreagh(whilk is, in plain Scotch, stealing a herd
of nowte,) a gallant, manly action , and mair befitting of pretty men (as sic reivers
...
10
Waverley. Guy-Mannering. Antiquary. Rob Roy. Ivanhoe
A thing deplorable in ony Christian country-Abe mair especially, that they take
pride in it, and reckon driving a spreagh (whilk is, in plain Scotch, stealing a herd
of nowte), a gallant, manly - action, and mair befitting of pretty, men (as sic reivers
...
