steak raidn.
Scottish History.
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steak raid1775
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid > cattle
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1775 L. Shaw Hist. Moray 219 MacIntosh, then [an. 1454] residing in the Island of Moy, sent to ask a Stike Raide, or Stike Criech, i.e. a Road Collup; a custom among the Highlanders, that when a party drove any spoil of cattle through a Gentleman's land, they should give him part of the spoil.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xxiii. 356 I take what the people of old used to call ‘a steak-raid’, that is, a ‘collop of the foray’, or, in plainer words, a portion of the robber's booty, paid by him to the laird, or chief, through whose grounds he drove his prey. View more context for this quotation
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