spreath

English

Noun

spreath (countable and uncountable, plural spreaths)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) A raid in order to steal cattle.
    • 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 426)
      It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.

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