cateran
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cateran
1325–75; < Medieval Latin caterānus, Latinized form of Middle English ( Scots ) catherein < Scots Gaelic ceatharn; see kern 1
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This missing youth turns out to be identical with the cateran of Drumshorlan.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
To impose on a citizen of London the family duties of a Highland cateran in the eighteenth century is as absurd as to compel him to carry a claymore and target instead of an umbrella.
From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw
Wulf laughed, but found him surprising, as the cateran spirit of his forebears came uppermost with this tremendous opportunity.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
Very likely my drover was a true blue Presbyterian, and his minister as genuine a cateran as himself.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
One was the Mahratta chout, the other the black mail of the Scottish cateran.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
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