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  • noun Plural form of cratur.

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Examples

  • And if I hadn't picked the wee craturs up, it - it - '

    The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

  • The haivers o 'the two spooney craturs juist garred me feel like's I'd taen a fizzy drink or something.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "Good night to you, Sir Churchman; I'm in nae swither whether I would change places wi 'ye the night, but weemen are daft craturs, poor things, and I've had my day."

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • "You're just a lot o 'haverin' craturs," he said with conviction.

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • Everything is snowed under and thae craturs near starved, but trustin 'Freckles that complete they are tamer than our chickens.

    Freckles 1904

  • Everything is snowed under and thae craturs near starved, but trustin 'Freckles that complete they are tamer than our chickens.

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • But I think whiles hoo thae ghaists maun lauch at them that lauchs as gien there was nae sic craturs i 'the warl'!

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

  • "Ye wadna hang the puir craturs, wad ye?" asked Donal.

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

  • An 'he had a licht airy w'y wi' him, that was to us oppresst craturs strangely comfortin ', ill as it was to believe he could ken what had been goin' on, an 'treat it i' that fashion!

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

  • Ye may ken better, but maybe they dinna; for haena ye jist allooed that sic conduc 'as I hae describit is no fit, whaever be guilty o' the same, whether rowdy laddies i 'the streets, or craturs ye canna see i' the hoose?

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

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