Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Highlander.

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  • noun A male highlander

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Examples

  • It must go to the grave with the fleet limbs! and over it should rise a monument, at sight of which every friendly highlandman would say, Feiich an cabracli mor de Clanruadli!

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864

  • Those Sasunnach fellows think every highlandman keen as

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • It must go to the grave with the fleet limbs! and over it should rise a monument, at sight of which every friendly highlandman would say, Feiich an cabracli mor de Clanruadli!

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • Those Sasunnach fellows think every highlandman keen as

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

  • -- She'll chust pe lying still and not pe ketting up, and when ta work is ofer, and eferypody cone away, she'll chust pe ketting up, and taking a look apout her, to see if she'll pe finding a stand o 'pipes that some coot highlandman has peen left pehint him when he tied lately. "

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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