Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Prey, especially in cattle; booty; plunder.
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Examples
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“To drive a spreagh [to plunder] or so, is no thievery,” said Balafre, “and that I will maintain when and how you dare.”
Quentin Durward 2008
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A man kens little till he's driven a spreagh of neat cattle (say) ten miles through a throng lowland country and the black soldiers maybe at his tail.
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A man kens little till he's driven a spreagh of neat cattle (say) ten miles through a throng lowland country and the black soldiers maybe at his tail.
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A man kens little till he's driven a spreagh of neat cattle (say) ten miles through a throng lowland country and the black soldiers maybe at his tail.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"To drive a spreagh [to plunder] or so, is no thievery," said
Quentin Durward Walter Scott 1801
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-- the 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 will ca 'themselves), than to win a day's wage by ony honest thrift.
Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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-- the 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 will ca 'themselves), than to win a day's wage by ony honest thrift.
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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