† garrayn.
Scottish and northern. Obsolete.
a. ? Armed force.
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. viii. 83 Full soyn he will shape vs to sheynd, And after vs send his garray.
b. Commotion, disturbance, noise, row.
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 149 He made all the garray.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 1067 in Poems (1981) 44 As thay wer carpand in this cais, with knakis, And all the court in garray and in gam.
a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 176 Ffor reilling þair micht na man rest ffor garray and for glew.
1606 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 50 For making on two severall Saboath daies in June last drinkinges and garries, whereby above the number of cth persons were assembled together with pipes and drummes and dancing all the time of Divine Service.
1725 in Old Leeds (1868) 70 Therefore none were to attend ‘any such garrays or merry nights’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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