caird

[ kaird; Scots keyrd ]

noun

, Scot.

1. a traveling tinker, especially a Romani.
2. a wandering tramp or vagrant.

caird

/ kerd; kɛəd /

noun

1. obsolete.
   a travelling tinker; vagrant

Word History and Origins

Origin of caird¹

First recorded in 1655–65; from Scots Gaelic ceard “tinker”; akin to Latin cerdō “workman,” Greek kerdṓ “cunning one”

Word History and Origins

Origin of caird¹

C17: from Scottish Gaelic; related to Welsh cerdd craft

Example Sentences

One such opinion as Mr. Caird's outweighs a great deal of damnatory praise from ignorant journalists.

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With potatoes, it has failed in the very year wherein Mr Caird has chosen to exhibit it as a universal model.

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Caird prophesied that in the next eighty years the value of land in England would more than double.

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Sir James Caird, as early as 1886, estimated the average reduction on agricultural rents at 30 per cent.

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For twenty-three years David had silenced that voice, but it had found him out again—it was Willie Caird's.

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