cateran
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cateran
1325–75; < Medieval Latin caterānus, Latinized form of Middle English ( Scots ) catherein < Scots Gaelic ceatharn; kern 1
Example Sentences
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But what is that long-haired, bare-legged cateran screaming about with his arms going like a windmill?
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert
No longer was he hunted by the cateran chief—no more were his lands devastated, or his cattle carried off.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
They had expected Rob to be a much more imposing and majestic cateran, and complained that his foot was set too late on his native heather.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Therefore, do not imagine, in your innocence, that we have only to melt away among those English hills as a Highland cateran might into your god-forsaken Highland mountains.
From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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 Maclaren, Ian
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