cratur

• “Janet became aware that he was sitting on his stool, in what had come to be called the cratur's corner, more than usually absorbed in some attempt with slate and pencil -- now ceasing, lost in thought, and now commencing anew.”

  Sir Gibbie

• “Every astronomer is aware that the moon is full of craters; and every linguist is aware that "cratur" is the Irish word for creature.”

  Moon Lore

• “But the Professor and his geological class did not chance to look that "cratur" in the mouth.”

  History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912

• “Suspicion hath it that in this neighborhood, in a still wilder and more secluded spot, there was not long ago another kind of "cratur," not at all extinct, but alive with all the fiery headiness of moonshine "old corn" whiskey.”

  History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912

• “MacWheep was a "cratur," and much given to twaddle, but when it was his duty once to rebuke a fellow-minister for quarrelling with his people, he was delivered from himself, and spake with such grave wisdom as he has never shown before or since.”

  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers

• “Donal Grant, missing his "cratur" that day for the first time, heard enough when he came home to satisfy him that he had been acting the brownie in the house and the stable as well as in the field, incredible as it might well appear that such a child should have had even mere strength for what he did.”

  Sir Gibbie

• “Ye ken she's had trouble aboot her kist (chest), and canna get it frae the swallowin 'cratur'.”

  Alec Forbes of Howglen

• “Tim declared that the banquet would have been perfect if we could have had a little of the "cratur," or, in the absence of it, a cup of hot coffee.”

  The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco

• “o 'ye, till I ken what I' m aboot an 'gie ye leave, dinna open yer moo' to leevin 'cratur' aboot this.”

  Malcolm

• “But, gentlemen, I beg o 'ye, till I ken what I'm aboot an' gie ye leave, dinna open yer moo 'to leevin' cratur 'aboot this.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875

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