gaberlunzie

• But the blood flows hot through the veins of eighteen Sholto, who knew nothing of these happenings, had just finished exercising his men on the smooth green in front of the Castle of Crichton, and had dismissed them, when a gaberlunzie or privileged beggar, a long lank rascal with a mat of tangled hair, and clad in a cast-off leathern suit which erstwhile some knight had worn under his mail, leaped suddenly from the shelter of a hedge. —  The Black Douglas
• He cam' here as a gaberlunzie, and on stating that he was indoctrinated in the sceence o' buttany, his honor garred me employ him. —  Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
• I got her from Colin Lothian, an old "gaberlunzie" man who travelled our countryside. —  The Pilots of Pomona
• But you forget that the affront descended like a benediction into the pouch of the old gaberlunzie, who overflowed in blessings upon the generous donor--long ere he would have thanked thee, Darsie, for thy barren veneration of his beard and his bearing. —  Redgauntlet
• Nobody ever found the place out except an old gaberlunzie, and I gave him tuppence not to tell Yes, show me that place.' —  The Convert

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