cateran
/ˈkat(ə)r(ə)n
/noun historical
A warrior or raider from the Scottish Highlands.But despite the commanders, the dukes, marquises knights and princes it is the common cateran who has left his mark....
- How, then, do we account for another footnoted passage, in Chapter 32, referring to the surprise attack by Rob Roy's caterans on the English horsemen under Captain Thornton?
- In 1390, on Robert II's death, Buchan and his caterans burned Forres, and then Elgin burgh and cathedral, in reprisals for Moray's actions.
Origin
Middle English (originally in the plural or as a collective singular denoting the peasantry as fighters): from Scottish Gaelic ceathairne 'peasantry'.
Rhymes
- livableness
- Livarot
- live
- liveability
- liveable
- liveaboard
- live action
- live-action role-player
- live-action role-playing
- live and breathe something
- live and let live
- live bait
- live-baiting
- livebearer
- live-bearing
- live birth
- live blog
- live blood
- live-born
- livebox
- live by one's wits
- live dangerously
- lived-in
- live fence
- live fencing