Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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BANGSTREE, BANGSTRIE, n. Violence to person or property. Arch.Sc. 1701 Thomson Acts of Parlts. of Scot. X. 261:
By force violence and open bangstrie intrometted with the proportion of the Complainants fishes for fourty one dayes together.Sc. 1931 J. Lorimer Red Sergeant xxviii.:
The kind you will find in most any town, the kind that are ever ready for any bangstrie or violence.Bnff. 1700 in J. F. S. Gordon Chron. of Keith (1880) 39:
Guiltie of the rest of the crimes of thieft, and masterfull bangstree and oppression.
