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caird
[ kaird; Scots keyrd ]
noun
, Scot.
- a traveling tinker, especially a Romani.
- a wandering tramp or vagrant.
caird
/ kerd; kɛəd /
noun
- obsolete.a travelling tinker; vagrant
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Word History and Origins
Origin of caird1
First recorded in 1655–65; from Scots Gaelic ceard “tinker”; akin to Latin cerdō “workman,” Greek kerdṓ “cunning one”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of caird1
C17: from Scottish Gaelic; related to Welsh cerdd craft
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Example Sentences
One such opinion as Mr. Caird's outweighs a great deal of damnatory praise from ignorant journalists.
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With potatoes, it has failed in the very year wherein Mr Caird has chosen to exhibit it as a universal model.
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Caird prophesied that in the next eighty years the value of land in England would more than double.
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Sir James Caird, as early as 1886, estimated the average reduction on agricultural rents at 30 per cent.
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For twenty-three years David had silenced that voice, but it had found him out again—it was Willie Caird's.
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