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▪ I. rath, n.1|rɑːθ, -æ-|
[Ir. rath, now pron. (raː)]
Irish Antiq. An enclosure (usually of a circular form) made by a strong earthen wall, and serving as a fort and place of residence for the chief of a tribe; a hill-fort. (Often incorrectly ascribed to the Danes.)
1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 642/2 There is a great use amongest the Irish to make greate assemblyes togither upon a rath or hill. Ibid., They are called Dane⁓rathes, that is, hills of the Danes. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. ii. ii. 161 A ground of aduantage, being a strong Rath, between the towne and the Camp. 1700E. Lhwyd in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 525 Their round Entrenchments, commonly called Danes Rathes. 1807Sir R. C. Hoare Tour Irel. 21 One of those raised earthen works, which the Irish writers call raths. 1845E. Warburton Crescent & Cross II. 361 With the tombs of Hector and Achilles appearing like Irish raths. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. lvii. 231 The ‘good people’ still linger around the raths and glens.
Hence rathed a., surrounded by an earthen wall.
1861J. Y. Simpson Archaeol. 36 The true sites of the..towns—or merely perhaps stockaded or rathed villages.
▪ II. rath, n.2|rɑːθ, -æ-|
A factitious word introduced by ‘Lewis Carroll’ (see quot. 18552).
Quot. 18551 also occurs in the first verse of ‘Jabberwocky’ in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) i. 21.
1855‘L. Carroll’ Rectory Umbrella & Mischmasch (1932) 139 All mimsy were the borogoves; And the mome raths outgrabe. Ibid. 140 Rath, a species of land turtle. Head erect: mouth like a shark: the fore legs curved out so that the animal walked on its knees: smooth green body: lived on swallows and oysters.
▪ III. rath
obs. form of raith; variant of rathe. |