creaght
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from a Goidelic language; compare Old Irish graig (“horses (collective)”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]creaght (plural creaghts)
- (obsolete) A drove or herd.
- 1835, Samuel Ferguson, “Corby Mac Gillmore”, in The Dublin University Magazine:
- Owen sent me to hurry off the creaght
References
[edit]- “creaght”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.