Lexicographical Neighbors of Creeshed
Literary usage of Creeshed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... And tipple red wine in Brabant brewn ; Kimmer can sit, and say, " E'en be it
sae !" And red rowes the Nith between banking and brae ; I creeshed ..."
2. Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough: With Twenty-six by John Bartholomew Gough (1870)
"... and it is not the first time he has 'creeshed his loofs with Mr. Sawney.'
He will return, laughing in his sleeve, to the land of Yankee Doodle, ..."
3. Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song by Robert Hartley Cromek, Allan Cunningham, William Gillespie (1880)
"... an' kin' Or the Laird's ae daughter wad ne'er hae been mine : I creeshed weel ..."
4. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1881)
"... o'er the springs an' lucks, An' says the gun's in prime condition ; My jacket's
on ; my weel-creeshed buits Are saft as kid, though stoot in leather, . ..."
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