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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of galloglass.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A soldier or armed retainer of a chief in ancient Ireland, the Hebrides, or other Gaelic countries.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A mercenary warrior élite among Gaelic-Norse clans residing in the Western Isles of Scotland and Scottish Highlands from the mid 13th century to the end of the 16th century.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward �

Etymologies

  1. Irish gallóglaigh ("foreign soldiers"), from óglách ("soldier"). (Wiktionary)

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  • moonlight Thank you. Oct 14, 2009

  • sionnach appears in "Macbeth": The merciless Macdonald...... from the western isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied.
    Derived from the Gaelic "gall-oglach", meaning foreign soldier. One of Ruth Rendell's thrillers is called "Gallowglass" as well. Jan 30, 2007

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