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cateran

[ kat-er-uhn ]

noun

  1. (formerly) a freebooter or marauder of the Scottish Highlands.


cateran

/ 藞办忙迟蓹谤蓹苍 /

noun

  1. (formerly) a member of a band of brigands and marauders in the Scottish highlands
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of cateran1

1325鈥75; < Medieval Latin 肠补迟别谤腻苍耻蝉, Latinized form of Middle English ( Scots ) catherein < Scots Gaelic ceatharn; kern 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of cateran1

C14: probably from Scottish Gaelic ceathairneach robber, plunderer
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Taking to the stage after a short opening blast by Scottish support band The Cateran, Nirvana's ferocious power quickly won him over.

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While these terms were under concession,228 and the Spanish merchants were chaffering with the sailors, as a lowland farmer might have done with a highland cateran, a party of well-inclined Flibustiers, unwilling to waste their time, rowed on shore, and stripped the great church of its pictures, images, carvings, clocks, and bells, even to the very cross on its steeple, piously desiring to erect a chapel at Tortuga, where there was much need of spiritual instruction.

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Wulf laughed, but found him surprising, as the cateran spirit of his forebears came uppermost with this tremendous opportunity.

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At bottom this man was just a wild Highland cateran with a dash of Spanish buccaneer, hot-blooded, avid of gain under circumstances so propitious, insatiable.

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Cateran, kat鈥瞖r-an, n. a Highland reiver or freebooter, a robber or brigand generally.

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