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hership Sc. arch. or Hist.|ˈhɜːʃɪp|
Forms: 4–7 heir-, 5–6 her-, 6 hir-, hayr-, hear- (heirst-), heiri-, herry-, 6–7 hair-, -schip(e, -schyp(e, (-scheip), 6– hership.
[f. here army, host, or stem of OE. herᵹan, ON. herja, to harry + -ship: cf. ON. herskap-r ‘warfare, harrying,’ which may be the actual source.]
1. Harrying, pillage, plundering, devastation; a warlike incursion, or foray; harrying of cattle.
1375Barbour Bruce ix. 298 [The king] heryit thame on sic maneir, That..neir fifty ȝheir, Men menyt the heirschip of bouchane. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 942 On Inglismen full gret herschipe thai maid. 1549Compl. Scot. i. 23 Maist extreme violent spulȝee ande hairschip of ther mouabil gudis. 1572Compl. Inhab. Elsdon in Northumb. Gloss. s.v. Har, Night reffes and hearships by the thiefes of Easte and West Tividall. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. Robt. III, 60 The paine of slavchter, reif, destructions and heirshippis..It is statute that na man vse any..heirschippis, birning, Reif, slauchter, in time to come. 1814Scott Wav. xv, The committing of divers thefts, reifs, and herships, upon the honest men of the Low Country. 1818― Hrt. Midl. xlii. note, Her'ship, a Scottish word which may be said to be now obsolete; because, fortunately, the practice of ‘plundering by armed force’, which is its meaning, does not require to be commonly spoken of.
2. A harried condition; hence, ruin, distress, famine, caused by robbery with violence or the like.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. xi. xi. (Jam.), The landwart pepyll be thir waris war brocht to sic pouerte and heirschip, that thair land was left vnsawin and vnlabourit. 1556Lauder Tractate 109 Bryngand thame to pouertie, To hounger, hirscheip, and rewyne. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. Will. 8 Trubland Gods people with skarsnes, povertie, and outer hairschip.
3. Booty, plunder; esp. cattle forcibly driven off.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 117 All the heirschip, tane wes of befoir, To euerilk steid tha gart agane restoir. 1768Ross Helenore 46 (Jam.) The track at last he found, Of the ca'd hership on the mossy ground. |
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