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dorlach Sc.|ˈdɔːləx|
Also 6–9 dorloch, 7 darloch.
[Gael. dorlach handful, bundle, large quantity, quiver.]
†1. A quiver. Obs.
1574Sc. Acts Jas. VI, (Jam.) And in the hielandis, haber⁓schonis, steilbonnettis, hektonis, swerdis, bows and dorlochis, or culueringis. 1625–49Sc. Acts Chas. I, (1814) V. 357 (Jam.) Bodin in hosteill manner with hagbutis..bowes, dorlaches, and wther invasive wapones. 1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xi. (1848) 298 The Highlanders emptying their dorlachs among them.
2. ‘A bundle, apparently that kind of truss, formerly worn by our Highland troops, instead of a knapsack’ (Jam.); hence, a valise, portmanteau.
a1662R. Baillie Lett. (1775) I. 175 (Jam.) These supple fellows [the Highlanders] with their plaids, targes and dorlachs. 1814Scott Wav. xlii, There's Vich Ian Vohr has packed his dorlach. Ibid. xliv, His leather dorloch wi' the lock on her was come frae Doune. |