A war-cry, a Scotch gathering-cry. (Anglo-Saxon, sleán, to fight, pret. slog; Gaelic, sluagh-gairm, an army-yell.)
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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.