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cateran

/ˈkat(ə)r(ə)n/
noun
historical
A warrior or raider from the Scottish Highlands.

Origin
Middle
English (originally in the plural or as a collective singular denoting the peasantry as fighters): from Scottish Gaelic ceathairne ‘peasantry’.

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The cateran came in their hundreds, ready for the scrap to come. They came at the call of Wallace.

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