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Definition of Hership
1. plundering [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hership
Literary usage of Hership
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"... hership was the crime of masterfully driving off cattle from a proprietor's
grounds ; 1 Hume, 110. HIDE—an ancient English measure of land—100 or 120 ..."
2. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"On a hership of goods being taken away in September, 'he with some horsemen
followed sharply, and brought back his haill goods again but strake of sword. ..."
3. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"and Gideon Elliot, chirurgeon, one hundred meiks.1 A hership of cattle having
taken place on the lands of Lord MAT :o. Rollo, in Perthshire, the Master of ..."
4. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, David Henry Montgomery (1894)
"My mother was a MacGregor — I carena wha kens it—And Rob had soon a gallant band;
and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and ..."
5. Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland by John Hill Burton (1852)
"Also, thereafter, he moved my brother and some of my friends to commit both
hership and slaughter upon the Laird of Luss. Also, he persuaded myself with ..."
6. A History of the House of Douglas from the Earliest Times Down to the by Herbert Maxwell (1902)
"On paper, therefore, the English organisation for the subduing of Scotland left
nothing to be desired, but the hership of Buchan in the north and Douglas's ..."
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