Highland Bail
. Fists and cuffs; to escape the constable by knocking him down with the aid of a companion.
“The mute eloquence of the miller and smith, which was vested in their clenched fists, was prepared to give highland bail for their arbiter [Edie Ochiltree].”—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xxix.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.