Daer

Daer, Lord, Douglas-Hamilton, Basil William (1764 – 1794): second son of the 4th Earl of Selkirk.

Index of People 2009

Daer had expected to meet the scowling blackguard of the chapbooks.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Daer had expected to meet the scowling blackguard of the chapbooks.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Much as Gilthas, who had human blood in his veins, Tam was a product of a liaison between a Hylar dwarf-the nobles of dwarfdom-and a Daer - gar, the dark dwarves.

Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

But the Daer-stock — daer means unfree — tenant, who took stock from his chief, became liable for heavier but still carefully defined duties.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

They were known as Saer-stock and Daer-stock Céiles.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Daer or Colonel Dalrymple in the chair showed that some, at least, of the gentry were for Reform.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Daer, by this time deceased, who had first convinced him that a lord might possibly be an honest and kind-hearted man.

Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852

We stopped a few hours at the Salt Springs, and then proceeded on our journey so as to reach Fort Daer the next morning to breakfast; so expeditiously will the dogs drag the cariole in a good track, and with a good driver.

The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. John West 1811

"I think people round here generally accept that the Daer is close to the source of the Clyde," he says.

A journey in search of the source of the Clyde reveals much about the river's place in the nation's heart - Scotland on Sunday 2010