Sc. Hist. Also 8 stike. [repr. Gael. staoig rathaid (staoig collop, a. Eng. steak or ON. steik; rathaid genit. of rathad road.] (See quots.)
1775. L. Shaw, Hist. Moray, 219. MacIntosh, then [an. 1454] residing in the Island of Moy, sent to ask a Stike Raide, or Stike Criech, i.e. a Road Collup; a custom among the Highlanders, that when a party drove any spoil of cattle through a Gentleman’s land, they should give him part of the spoil.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxiii. I take what the people of old used to call ‘a steakraid,’ that is, a ‘collop of the foray,’ or, in plainer words, a portion of the robber’s booty, paid by him to the Laird, or Chief, through whose grounds he drove his prey.
