Obs. Also bodrak(e, bordrag(e. [prob. a corruption of some Ir. word: cf. buaidhreadh molestation, disturbance (O’Reilly), buadre, tumult (Stokes).] A hostile incursion, a raid. Hence, in same sense, Bo[r]draging.
1537. St. Papers Hen. VIII., II. 480. The castelles be not for our defence agaynst ther stelthe and bodrakes.
1586. J. Hooker, Girald. Irel., II. 172/2. Nothing liking the outrages, bodrages, and villanies dailie practised by Barrie, Condon, and others.
1595. Spenser, Col. Clout, 315. No nightly bodrags, nor no hue and cries. Ibid. (1596), F. Q., II. x. 63. Yet oft annoyd with sondry bordragings.
