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‖ creagh, creach, n.|krɛx|
Also 9 craich.
[a. Gaelic and Irish creach plunder, pillage.]
1. An incursion for plunder (in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland); a raid, foray.
1814Scott Wav. xv (heading), A Creagh, and its consequences. note, A creagh was an incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid. 1845New Statist. Acc. Scot. XV. 198 A border parish was exposed to sudden inroads and craichs. 1888Blackw. Mag. Apr. 535 Farmers who lay exposed to the creaghs.
2. Booty, prey.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlix, The cattle were in the act of being driven off, when Butler..rescued the creagh. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. VI. lxv. 22 Large ‘creachs’ of prey were driven by the Highlanders.
Hence creagh v. trans., to raid, plunder.
1883Sat. Rev. LV. 464 Those who are ‘creaghed’. 1884M. Hickson Ireland in 17th C. I. 14 The wild creaghting life of Ulster. |