Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Highland-bail
subs. (Scots’).—The right of the strongest; force majeure.
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1816. SCOTT, The Antiquary, ch. xxix. The mute eloquence of the miller and smith, which was vested in their clenched fists, was prepared to give HIGHLAND BAIL for their arbiter.
