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bailies
n. (context obsolete Scotland English) (plural of bailie English)
Usage examples of "bailies".
As to the droving, I shall not mention to all I meet that I am brother to one of the bailies of Glasgow.
Hence it was no wonder, some of the bailies being not only small men and therefore conceited, but powerful whigs, who despised everything highland, and the bagpipes especially, if the affair did for awhile seem hopeless.
There were the broad outer and inner bailies, not paved, but sown with grass to nourish the sheep and cattle which might be driven in on sign of danger.