kithing

Updated: May 11, 2025

For the monks of that time were eager to get into their clutches such men-children as appeared to be gifted with any peculiar gift, in order to rear them for stoops and posts to sustain their Babylon, in the tower and structure whereof many rents and cracks were daily kithing.

John Galt - Ringan Gilhaize: or The Covenanters