spreath

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A raid in order to steal cattle. Scotland,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.

词形变化

spreaths plural

词源

From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sprèidh, from Middle Irish spréid (“cattle, wealth”), from Latin praeda (“plunder, spoils; profit; prey”), thus a doublet of prey. Per one hypothesis, also a doublet of spree.
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