spreath

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɹiːθ/

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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