A Scottish or Irish term meaning to plunder, raid, or steal livestock; to make a creach or raid on someone's property.
From Gaelic 'creachadh' or Scottish Gaelic, related to raiding and plundering. The word reflects the historical practice of cattle raiding in Celtic regions.
Cattle raiding was such a central feature of Scottish and Irish Highland life that they had specific words for it—'creach' wasn't considered a crime in the same way, but part of inter-clan competition, much like 'rustling' in the American West.
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