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Terry Alts

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Insurgents of Clare, who appeared after the Union, and committed numerous outrages. These rebels were similar to “the Thrashers” of Connaught, “the Carders,” the followers of “Captain Rock” in 1822, and the Fenians (1869).

 

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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.

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Terence
Teresa (St.)
Term Time
Term Time of our Universities
Termagant
Terpsichore (properly Terp-sik-o-re, but often pronounced Terp-si-core)
Terra Firma
Terrestrial Sun (That)
Terrible (The)
Terrier
Terry Alts
Tertium Quid
Terza Rima
Tesserarian Art
Tester
Tête-à-tête
Tête Bottée [Booted Head]
Tete du Pont
Tether
Tethys
Tetragrammaton