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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See creach.

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Examples

  • The creagh is yet remembered in which he swept one hundred and fifty cows from Monteith in one drove; and how he placed the laird of Ballybught naked in a slough, for having threatened to send for a party of the Highland Watch to protect his property.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • He heard with great gravity all that could be told him of the circumstances of the creagh, and expressed his confidence that the herd-widdiefows14 could not have carried their booty far, and that he should be able to recover them.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but

    Waverley 2004

  • For however little ye may make of the flight I have put him to, none of the men of Erin, [11] not even four of the five provinces of Erin [11] could have obtained so much as that of him on the Cow-creagh of Cualnge.

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • "In the advance," observes Sir Walter Scott, "they showed the sentiments of brave men, come, in their opinion, to liberate their fellow-citizens; in the retreat, they were caterans, returning from a creagh."

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

  • The former is abridged, and the latter omitted; as also a lively detail of the _creagh_, in which the Monroes are reproached with their spoilages of cheese, butter, and winter-mart beef.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • He heard with great gravity all that could be told him of the circumstances of the creagh, and expressed his confidence that the herd-widdiefows could not have carried their booty far, and that

    Rob Roy 1887

  • Eleians had driven a _creagh_ of cattle from the Pylians, who pursued, and Nestor killed the Eleian leader, Itymoneus.

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth. ''

    The Waverley 1877

  • Kind Gallows of Crieff. goodsire died, and where I hope he'll live to die himsell, if he's not shot or slashed in a creagh. ''

    The Waverley 1877

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