Crossword clues for highlander
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Highlander \High"land*er\, n.
a soldier in a Scottish Highland regiment. [WordNet sense 1]
An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland. [WordNet sense 2]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Highland + -er (1).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A person who inhabits the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20Highlands. 2 Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain. Etymology 2
n. (label en collectible card games often capitalized) A game format in which players are allowed no more than one of any card (except basic resource cards) in their decks.
Wikipedia
Highlander is a film and television franchise that began with a 1986 fantasy movie starring Christopher Lambert, who played Connor MacLeod, the Highlander. Born in Glenfinnan, in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, MacLeod is one of a number of Immortals. There have been five Highlander movies, two television series, an animated series, an animated movie, an animated flash-movie series, ten original novels, nineteen comic book issues, and various licensed merchandise.
The Highlander is a large (20 foot LOA) high performance one-design racing dinghy, also used for day sailing, popular in the United States. It was designed by Gordon K. (Sandy) Douglass in 1949, to be a more comfortable alternative to the Thistle. The Highlander was the last boat built by the Douglass & McLeod company. The Highlander features an 88 pound centerboard. The Highlander sails with a main, jib and spinnaker. With over 1000 boats built, the Highlander has gained reputation for being stable and secure. There are currently 14 racing fleets of Highlanders located in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Douglass' Flying Scot is known as the little sister to the Highlander.
In July 2012, Skip Dieball won the 2012 Highlander National Championship, which took place at Edgewater Yacht Club in Cleveland, Ohio.
Highlander may refer to:
Highlander is a 1986 British-American epic adventure action fantasy film directed by Russell Mulcahy and based on a story by Gregory Widen. It stars Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Roxanne Hart. The film narrates the climax of an ages-old battle between immortal warriors, depicted through interwoven past and present day storylines. In the film, the Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod reveals that he is an extremly powerful immortal warrior known as the Highlander, and after a fierce training by another highly skilled immortal swordsman named Ramirez, MacLeod has arrived to 1985 and lives at New York of our times, while managing an antiques shop, he also falls in love with a police woman named Brenda and finds out that he is must to face against his biggest enemy; the brutal and dark Kurgan, which wishes to kill MacLeod and to obtain "the Prize"—a special ability which giving to the final immortal warrior vast knowledge and the ability to enslave the entire human race.
Despite having enjoyed little success on its initial U.S. release, grossing over $12 million worldwide against a production budget of $19 million, as well as receiving mixed reviews, Highlander became a cult film and launched Lambert to stardom. It inspired a franchise which included film sequels and television spin-offs. Its tagline, "There can be only one", has carried on throughout the franchise, as have the songs provided for the film by the rock band Queen.
Dynamite Entertainment has published two comic book mini series based on the Highlander franchise. The first is a series of 13 issues simply titled Highlander that was later released in a 3 volume set. The second series is a 4 issue prequel to first Highlander film called Highlander: Way of the Sword.
Highlander was a video game tie-in to the Highlander franchise. It was released in 1986 by Ocean Software. It was not popular in magazine reviews. Sinclair User gave it two stars of five and called it "a golden turkey". Also giving it the "golden turkey award". The game was described as a bad port of standard fighting games at the time. Crash gave it an overall score of 57% and called it "totally boring and quite unplayable". ZZap64 gave it an overall score of 30% and wrote "This is a real case of a film tie-in rip-off".
Usage examples of "highlander".
I cannot speak for the Germans, of course, but depend upon it, sir, we shall have all the Highlanders of the backcountry, and not a few of the ScotchIrish, too.
I hope to raise a considerable body of the Scottish Highlanders, who will march from the backcountry to the coast, there to meet with troops sent from England, and in the process, to subdue the countryside on behalf of the King.
The huge Highlander was already sitting above him on the crossarm, his bare legs hanging beneath his old kilt, his face laughing beneath his green beret.
On the sixteenth day of April, the duke of Cumberland, having made the proper dispositions, decamped from Nairn early in the morning, and after a march of nine miles perceived the highlanders drawn up in order of battle, to the number of four thou-sand men, in thirteen divisions, supplied with some pieces of artillery.
The little Highlander, as seemingly unlikely a hefter of Portland stone and marble as Angus Buchanan, was rubbing at the crown of his bald head and squinting at the designs spread before him.
Mahrattas, which ended in complete victory at Gawilghur, was thus won by Madrassi sepoys and Scottish Highlanders, and it was an extraordinary victory.
The Highlanders were taller than the Madrassi battalions and their stride was longer as they hurried to gain the dead ground where the bombardment could not reach them.
Colonel Raden could be emphatic enough on the rights of property, but no Highlander can ever grow excited about trespass.
With his hair unbound and tangled round his shoulders, he looked the wild Highlander he was.
Rone before the highlander could stop him, dancing about in maddened delight, his sticklike form disappearing into the smoke.
She is, in fact, a distant connection, some sort of cousin, I suppose, but not being a Highlander or a Welshwoman, I really cannot say how many times removed.
Highlander Folk School in lennessee, which had nurtured so many black and white activists throughout the South, was now joined hy other folk schools and popular education centers.
Because they were Highlanders who kept much to themselves, because of the centuries of rumors, because of the string of broken betrothals, fathers of well-bred young ladies were loath to pledge their daughters to him.
The plan was to march a British force right through them, then spread out into a wide line and come straight back, driving the burghers on to the cordon of blockhouses, which had been strengthened by the arrival of three regiments of Highlanders.
Here he found the Boers in considerable numbers, but he pushed them northward with his cavalry, mounted infantry, and artillery, losing between thirty and forty killed and wounded, the greater part from the ranks of the 18th Hussars and the Gordon Highlanders.