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Etymology
From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sprédh, spré, from Middle Irish preid, preit (“booty”) (plus mobile s-), borrowed from Latin praeda (“plunder, spoils; profit; prey”), thus a doublet of prey. Per one hypothesis, also a doublet of spree.
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spreath (countable and uncountable, plural spreaths)
- (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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