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steak raid Sc. Hist.
Also 8 stike.
[repr. Gael. staoig rathaid (staoig collop, a. Eng. steak or ON. steik; rathaid genit. of rathad road.]
(See quots.)
1775L. Shaw Hist. Moray 219 MacIntosh, then [an. 1454] residing in the Island of Moy, sent to ask a Stike Raide, or Stike Criech, i.e. a Road Collup; a custom among the Highlanders, that when a party drove any spoil of cattle through a Gentleman's land, they should give him part of the spoil. 1814Scott Wav. xxiii, I take what the people of old used to call ‘a steakraid,’ that is, a ‘collop of the foray,’ or, in plainer words, a portion of the robber's booty, paid by him to the Laird, or Chief, through whose grounds he drove his prey. |