单词 | tascal |
释义 | † tascal Sc. Obs. exc. Hist. [a. Gael. taisgeal the finding of anything that was lost, f. taisg a treasure, taisg to deposit, hoard, bury.] In tascal money, a reward formerly paid in the Scottish Highlands for information regarding stolen cattle.
c1730Burt Lett. (1754) II. xxiv. 243 Sending Persons into the Country suspected, and by them offering a Reward (which they call Tascal Money) to any one who should discover the Cattle, and those who stole them. 1827J. Anderson St. Soc. & Knowl. Highl. 70 He who..received tascal money as informer, met scorn, perhaps death. 1907A. Lang Hist. Scot. IV. xv. 368 Tascal money used to be paid to traitors among the robbers. |

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