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currack, -ock Sc.|ˈkʌrək|
Also currach, -och.
[Cf. Gaelic curran ‘paniers slung on horses for carrying bulky loads, as hay, corn’ (Macleod). The terminations -an and -ag are both diminutive, as is also -ock in Eng. and Sc.]
pl. A pair of open wooden or wicker frames slung pannier-wise on each side of a horse, for carrying a load of corn, hay, or other bulky stuff. Cf. crooks: crook n. 9.
1792Statist. Acc. Scot. IV. 395 The fuel was carried in creels and the corns in curracks. 1793W. Anderson Piper of Peebles in C. Rogers Soc. Life Scot. I. vi. 218 Coops and carts were unco rare An' creels and currocks boot to sair [i.e. behoved to serve]. 1880Gordon Bk. Chron. Keith 443 A load of plants slung over the horse's back in the ‘Currach’ style. 1892Blackw. Mag. Oct. 479 Panniers or currochs were laid across the pony's back. |