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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 512 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CATERAN (from the Gaelic ceathairne, a collective word meaning " peasantry ")

CATERAN (from the Gaelic ceathairne, a collective word meaning " peasantry ") , the

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BAND

band of fighting men of a Highland

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CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan; hence the

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TERM

term is applied to the Highland, and later to any, marauders or

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle-lifters .

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