HIGHLAND FLING. A step in dancing, peculiar to the Scotch Highlands. The name is commonly transferred to the dance itself. The term ‘fling
’ expresses the kicking gesture which characterises it. When a horse kicks by merely raising one leg and striking with it, he is said, in grooms' parlance, to ‘fling like a cow.
’ The performer dances on each leg alternately, and flings the other leg in front and behind. The Highland Fling, in which three, four, or more...
