creaghtn.
/krɛxt/, /kreɪt/, U.S. /kreɪ(x)t/, Irish English /kræxt/, /krɛxt/ 1.
a. Irish History. A nomadic herd of cattle driven about from place to place for pasture, or in time of war with the forces of their owners. (The word often includes the herdsmen or drivers.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > herd > of particular type
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a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 69 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) He shall finde no where safe to keepe his Creete..that in short space his Creete, which is his cheife sustenance, shall be..starved for want of pasture.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 160 [In these fast places] they kept their Creaghts or Heardes of Cattle.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. x. 70 The residue..I haue left to keepe their Crets.
1643 Col. H. O'Neill Relation in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland III. 201 O'Neill ordered his army and creaghts to move.
b. Sometimes misunderstood and loosely or erroneously used.
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1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. i. 79 Commonly bringing their Cattle into their owne stinking Creates.
1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 227 The country people..dwelt scattered in cretes and cabans.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 673 He was soon at the head of seven or eight thousand Rapparees, or, to use the name peculiar to Ulster, Creaghts.
2. transferred. Applied to Eastern pastoral nomads.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > herding > herdsman or woman
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tripherd1305
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pasture-man1547
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herdsman1603
pastoral1607
feeder1611
creaght1634
herder1635
keep1641
creaghter1653
town herd1760
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stock-keeper1806
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herd-girla1856
herd-laddie1865
pastoralist1879
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 170 Near this place we overtook some of those Creats or wandring Herds-men, old Authors commonly call Nomades..now of no accompt amongst the Persians.
Derivatives
creaght v. to take cattle from place to place to graze.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (intransitive)] > drive from place to place
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1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 25 They do..by kreating and shifting their Boolies from seed-fur til haruest bee inned, both depasture and soile their grounds.
1612 J. Davies Discov. Causes Ireland (1787) 161 It was made penal to the English to permit the Irish to creaght or graze upon their lands.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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