spreath

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12
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7
Pronunciation
/spɹiːθ/

Definition of spreath

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Scotland, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A raid in order to steal cattle.
    “It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.”

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Etymology

From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sprèidh, from Middle Irish spréid (“cattle, wealth”), from Latin praeda (“plunder, spoils; profit; prey”), thus a doublet of prey. Per one hypothesis, also a doublet of spree.

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