Definition of "creach" [creach]

• A Highland foray; a plundering excursion; a raid. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""There has been a 'creach,' that is, a raid of cattle-stealers from out of the Highland hills," she told him, hardly able to keep back her tears -- not, she explained, because of the lost cattle, but because she feared that the anger of her father might end in the slaying of some of the Caterans, and in a blood-feud which would last as long as they or any of their family lived."