loup-the-tether

Updated: May 11, 2025

'Think of his having left my cause in the dead-thraw between the tyneing and the winning, and capering off into Cumberland here, after a wild loup-the-tether lad they ca' Darsie Latimer. 'Darsie Latimer! said Mr. Geddes, hastily; 'do you know anything of Darsie Latimer?

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet