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Definition of Filabegs
1. filabeg [n] - See also: filabeg
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filabegs
Literary usage of Filabegs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"... Wi' their claymores and filabegs, If I face them [again], deil break my legs,
So I wish you a' good morning." Hey, Johnie Cope I frc. ..."
2. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"In faith,' quo' John, ' I got sic flogs \VT their claymores and their filabegs,
If I face them, de'il break my legs, So I wish you a good morning. ..."
3. Romantic Edinburgh by John Geddie (1900)
"... and to Leith Races also, those heroes repair, the " stumps erst used to
filabegs, now dight in ..."
4. The Hebrid Isles: Wanderings in the Land of Lorne and the Outer Hebrides by Robert Williams Buchanan (1883)
"... in the City Guard of Edinburgh, those poor old veterans so savagely described
by Ferguson in ' Leith Races': ' Their stumps, erst used to filabegs, ..."
5. The Harp of Perthshire: A Collection of Songs, Ballads, and Other Poetical by Robert Ford (1893)
"... a place in the City Guard of Edinburgh, those poor old veterans so sagely
described by Fergusson in "Leith Kaces"— " Their stumps, erst used to filabegs ..."
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