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Irish chief's stronghold
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rath
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rath \Rath\, Rathe \Rathe\, adv. Early; soon; betimes. [Obs. or Poetic] Why rise ye up so rathe? --Chaucer. Too rathe cut off by practice criminal. --Spenser.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context historical English) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age. Etymology 2 a. (alternative form of rathe English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rath is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ari Rath (born 1925), Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer Billy Rath (1948–2014), American musician Bogdan Rath (born 1972), Romanian and later Italian Olympic water polo player Claudia Rath ...
Usage examples of rath.
The way he said it gave me to know he had no intention of leaving his sheepfold and bothy for the safety of the rath.
The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides.
Rath mention the Kabbala, but he seemed to think it was worthless by definition, being Jewish.
But even her old father would surely have been astonished to see Larine the druid entering the rath now as a Christian bishop.
Great numbers of pipes have been found in the raths and tumuli of Ireland, which, there is every reason to believe, were placed there by men of the Prehistoric Period.
The rath outgrabe mightily, combining the sound of a bellow, a sneeze, and a whistle.
The rath outgrabe triumphantly, and the Jubjub bird let out a deep angry caw.
Thus did Cormac mac Art depart Rath Glondarth, and Connacht, like a thief in the night.
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths olAtgrabe.
She fiercely brought her fist down on the table with a soft, insubstantial thud that made Rath draw back and set Miss Bricker shuddering once more.
Maury Gender had thrown himself out of its course, Miss Bricker had jerked her feet up under her, as if from a mouse, and so had Max Rath.
The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides.
Hill of Tara, royal residence of the Eireann kings, with its triple ring of ditches surrounding not one but two great raths, strong behind stout timber.
Great numbers of pipes have been found in the raths and tumuli of Ireland, which, there is every reason to believe, were placed there by men of the Prehistoric Period.
His memory gave him the words Twas briflig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.