spec. The act of riding with hostile intent against a person or district; a hostile incursion by mounted men; a foray, raid. Obsolete (archaic in…

An attack made for the sake of plunder; a petty raid. Cf. skeg, n.3

An expedition on horseback; a raid, campaign.

A hostile or predatory incursion or inroad, a raid. †in, of foray: on a foray.

A journey; spec. a military expedition, a hostile incursion or inroad, a raid or foray.

Originally Scottish. A mounted military expedition; a hostile and predatory incursion (originally on horseback); an aggressive foray. Cf. inroad, n.…

A hostile incursion, a raid.

= skeck, n.

A mounted military expedition or incursion; = raid, n. 2a. Obsolete.

A hostile incursion into a country; a raid or foray.

An act of riding out; esp. a warlike excursion or raid, a sortie. Also figurative.

Military. An issuing forth against an enemy; a sally, sortie, raid. Obsolete except in phr. alarms and excursions at alarm, int. n.adv. phrases 2.

An outrush, raid, hostile sally.

A ride, a march or raid on horseback. Obsolete.

= chevachee, n.

Error for chevachee, n.

A hostile incursion, a surprise attack. Later also in weakened sense: an outburst, a tirade.

A raid, inroad. Obsolete.

An expedition, an outing; a raid. Obsolete.

South African. An armed and usually mounted party of men, typically civilians, mustered, esp. against indigenous peoples, for forays, reprisals, and…

Esp. in North Africa: a hostile or aggressive incursion, foray, or raid, esp. for the purposes of conquest, plunder, capture of slaves, etc.

A Maori raid undertaken as a compensation or reprisal for an offence against the community.

A plundering expedition, a raid.