colegarths

Updated: June 1, 2025

Let us try to understand it, and Daun's position to it, in some slight degree. The Village hangs confusedly, a jumble of cottages and colegarths, on the crown and north slope of the Height; thatched, in part tiled, and built mostly of rough stone blocks, in our time, not of wood, as probably in Friedrich's.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18

In which scrubby moor, as elsewhere in this dell or hollow way itself, where the Village hangs, with its hedges, piggeries, colegarths, there is like to be bad enough marching for a column of men! Noailles, as we said, has Two Bridges thrown across the Mayn, just below; and the last of his Five Batteries, from the other side, will command Dettingen. His plan of operation is this:

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14